An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

There is no education like adversity.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

You have to be someone.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

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.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

To create something you must be something.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Knowledge is true opinion.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.