You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

The best is the enemy of the good.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

I can be a cruel person.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

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.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

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

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

What we think, we become.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.