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

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

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!

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

God always wants us to be growing.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

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

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

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

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Aim for the highest.