I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

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

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

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

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

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.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

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

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

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

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.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.