Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

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.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

What one fool can understand, another can.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

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

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.