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.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Philosophy is the highest music.

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

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

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

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

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

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

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

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

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

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

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.