You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

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

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

The doer alone learneth.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.