How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

Common Core is a big win for education.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

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

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

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

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

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

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Knowledge is power.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

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!

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.

I grew up cursing a lot.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.