Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I got my own back.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

No one but a fool is always right.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

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.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

The wisest have the most authority.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.