True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

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.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I get naturally uncomfortable when I’m put under a magnifying glass.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

In ‚Gran Torino,‘ I play a guy who’s racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you’re never too old to learn and embrace people that you don’t understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in 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.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.