Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

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

People ask, ‚Should I call you Sir Hopkins?‘ But I say, ‚No. Call me Tony,‘ because it’s too much of a lift-up.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

I don’t believe in endorsing a product that you don’t want to endorse.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.