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

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

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

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Big results require big ambitions.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

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

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

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

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘