Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.

No man is hurt but by himself.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

My whole life is a theater piece.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

I give the children education.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Children make your life important.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Life is a dead-end street.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

What I love best in life is new starts.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

I never say I am a guru.