I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

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

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

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

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

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

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.