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

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

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

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Information is not knowledge.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I am a grafter.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

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.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

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

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Time discovers truth.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

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

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

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.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

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

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

You fail only if you stop writing.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.