In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

A lie cannot live.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

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

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

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.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.