I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

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.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

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

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Life well spent is long.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

God created man, but I could do better.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

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.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.