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

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

I give opinions, not advice.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

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

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

I’m not the most patient of people.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Learn to think continentally.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

What I love best in life is new starts.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.