Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

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

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

All great achievements require time.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.