You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

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

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

I give the children education.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Nothing endures but change.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

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

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

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.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.