There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

You can be happy where you are.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

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

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘