Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

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

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.