Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

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.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

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

We feel and know that we are eternal.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.

The worst men often give the best advice.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.