Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

I will praise any man that will praise me.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

I always wanted more – more of everything.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

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

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.