Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

The self is hateful.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn’t love them.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

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.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

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

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Never confuse motion with action.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

Facts are stubborn things.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

I’m not the most patient of people.

Forget the past.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

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

It is always your next move.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

We cannot learn men from books.