Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

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

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

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 first story I finished was when I was six years old.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

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

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

The wisest have the most authority.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.