More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Success has always been a great liar.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I’m not a bad person.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

No man was ever great by imitation.

If music be the food of love, play on.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

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

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

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.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

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

Yes, there is a terrible moral in ‚Dorian Gray‘ – a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

You either make dust or eat dust.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

I give the children education.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

What one has to do usually can be done.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.