There is no education like adversity.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

I need physics more than friends.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

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

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

I give the children education.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

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

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Every artist was first an amateur.