Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

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

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don’t know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.