I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

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

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

The doer alone learneth.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

The older you get, the better you get.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Every wall is a door.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Every artist was first an amateur.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.