A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

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.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

Bad men are full of repentance.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

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

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

No driver is perfect.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Competition is a sin.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Before all else, be armed.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.