I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

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

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

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

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

My future is righteousness.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

I’m chasing perfection.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forget the past.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Never complain and never explain.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

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

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

If you would judge, understand.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.