Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

I have wasted my hours.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

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

Change alone is unchanging.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

I never say I am a guru.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Time discovers truth.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.