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.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Character is power.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

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.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

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.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.