At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

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

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

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

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

Few people realize that luck is created.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It’s only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they’re just economic figures.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

Change alone is unchanging.

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.

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

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I’ve come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.