Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.