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

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Truth is a pathless land.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

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

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.