Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

Libraries raised me.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

Small aim is a crime.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

People want to feel hopeful.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated – but haters are losers. It’s not good to feed this aspect. It’s more intelligent to be constructive.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.