No driver is perfect.

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

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

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

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

To make headway, improve your head.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Let go of yesterday.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

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

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Small aim is a crime.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

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.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

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

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.