Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

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

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

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

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.