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

Many people don’t understand ring control. They think they do until they’re against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

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.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

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.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

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.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

I’ll die a crazy old man!

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.

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.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Every dollar I made from DJing, I put into my videos, promotion – everything.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.