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

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Only the educated are free.

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.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

I’m not the most patient of people.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Mine is better than ours.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.