A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

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

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

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

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Success has always been a great liar.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.