When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

I don’t travel with them, but they can’t be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes… I used to play with my family – dad, my grandpa, my uncles.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

What you guys want, I’m for.

Never take anything for granted.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.