I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

I’m crepuscular.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

There is no education like adversity.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

I believe time wounds all heels.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

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

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

The worst men often give the best advice.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.