The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Without failure there is no achievement.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.