Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

Knowledge is power.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

The reward of suffering is experience.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

I can handle pain.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.