Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

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

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

I kinda live where I find myself.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

Every man is his own hell.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

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.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

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.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

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.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

I grew up cursing a lot.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

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

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

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

Man is a universe within himself.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.