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

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Change alone is unchanging.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

You fail only if you stop writing.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

Facts are stubborn things.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

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

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.