For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

One must steer, not talk.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

As you think, so shall you become.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Aim for the highest.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.