The more you know the less you need to say.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I don’t throw lavish parties or nothing like that – I just want a bed and a TV.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

What you guys want, I’m for.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.