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

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

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

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Let go of yesterday.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

Being humble matters.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

I focus on my own job.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

There is no education like adversity.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.