Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

How young can you die of old age?

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

I already am a product.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

No man was ever wise by chance.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

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

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

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

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

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 conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

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.