The more I see the less I know for sure.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

A lie cannot live.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

The reward of suffering is experience.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I am just one human being.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.