The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

What you are comes to you.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

I don’t care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don’t have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

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

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Nothing recedes like progress.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

Africa will thrive.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.