Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

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

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

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.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.