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.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

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.

Power is competence.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

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

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Don’t ever play yourself.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

It is my job to help the players react better.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Learn to think continentally.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

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.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

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 find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

When Caroline Kennedy managed to say ‚you know‘ more than 200 times in an interview with the New York ‚Daily News,‘ and on 130 occasions while talking to ‚The New York Times‘ during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

I give the children education.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

It is natural to want to have a future.