The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

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.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

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.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

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

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

My future is righteousness.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.