I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.