I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

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

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

I focus on my own job.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Youth is wasted on the young.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

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

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.