Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

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

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

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.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

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

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.