Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

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

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

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

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

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

My recollection is – and I’d have to confirm this – but I don’t recall paying any money to go to law school.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

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.

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

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

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’m not very articulate.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

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

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

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.