We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

I never make conscious decisions.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

Nature is not human hearted.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

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

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

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

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

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

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.