Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

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 bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Our best thoughts come from others.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

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

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

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.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

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

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.