We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Better is the enemy of good.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

I’m not the most patient of people.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

The cautious seldom err.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.