Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

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

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

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

I focus on my own job.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

I give the children education.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

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

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

I grew up cursing a lot.

God always wants us to be growing.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

I’m not very articulate.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Character is destiny.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

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

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.