I’m not really book-smart.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

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.‘

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Humble people ask for help.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

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

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

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.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The best is the enemy of the good.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

I’m not a natural born performer.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

There is no sin except stupidity.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.