The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

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.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

You have to be someone.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

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

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

A lie cannot live.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Learn to think continentally.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they’re doing. People don’t look at me. They don’t even know I’m there.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.