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

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Education is the best provision for old age.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

If you can talk, you can write.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I’m chasing perfection.

Knowledge is true opinion.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

You either make dust or eat dust.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

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.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.