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.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

My life has been very full.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

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.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Don’t ever play yourself.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.