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

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

When you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

What we think, we become.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

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

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.