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

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

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

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

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

I’m not the most patient of people.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

I’m not a bad person.

Tell the children the truth.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.