Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

I’m much healthier now.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

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.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

As you think, so shall you become.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

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

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

I never fall in love.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

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.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.