I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

I don’t have all the answers.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Ability without honor is useless.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn’t love them.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

The wisest have the most authority.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.