Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Power is competence.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

One must steer, not talk.

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

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

I always make my dreams into goals.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

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.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.