He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

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.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

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

Wisdom is found only in truth.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

Nature is not human hearted.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.