Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

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

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s word.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Fear is exciting for me.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.