The more you know the less you need to say.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

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.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

One must steer, not talk.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.