Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Knowledge is power.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

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.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I’m selfish.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

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

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

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.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.