To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

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

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

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.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

I never talk about my next project.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

God has entrusted me with myself.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

Act, and God will act.

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

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

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.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.