No driver is perfect.

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.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

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

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

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

I never expected to be anybody important.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Never complain. Never explain.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

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.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Life well spent is long.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

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.

Let the path be open to talent.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

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

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.