Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

What I love best in life is new starts.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.