If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

Common sense is not so common.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

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.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

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

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Forever is composed of nows.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Aim for the highest.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

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.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Libraries raised me.

Nature is not human hearted.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.