All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

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.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

The doer alone learneth.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Don’t ever play yourself.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?