Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I’m not a natural born performer.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

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.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

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

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

You have to be someone.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.