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

Words are loaded pistols.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

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.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

Nature is not human hearted.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

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

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

They’ve got this crazy actor who’s 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they’re probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.