All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

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

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

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.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

I came up from a difficult background.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

There is no sin except stupidity.

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

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.