We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

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.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

We cannot learn men from books.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

Never mistake motion for action.

Information is not knowledge.

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

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

I am two with nature.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

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

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

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

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.