It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‚How to Build a Boat.‘

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

What I love best in life is new starts.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.