I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

You either make dust or eat dust.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

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.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

I’m an emotional person.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I like school and I like learning.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

No man was ever great by imitation.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

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

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

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Hatred is self-punishment.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.