The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

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

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

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.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

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.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

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.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

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.

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

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.