Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

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

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

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.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

If you judge, investigate.

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

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

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

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

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

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

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.

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.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

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

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

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

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

A fool is wise in his eyes.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

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