Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

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.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

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!

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Men must know their limitations.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Never confuse motion with action.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.