It is not well to make great changes in old age.

I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Time discovers truth.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

There is nothing permanent except change.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

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

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

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.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

All diseases run into one, old age.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

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

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘