Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

No driver is perfect.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

I don’t write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

A witty saying proves nothing.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.