One must steer, not talk.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

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

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

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.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

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

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

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

I’m not a bad person.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

If you can talk, you can write.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.