You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

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

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

No one but a fool is always right.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I think that I’m perfect.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

My life is my argument.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

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

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Common Core is a big win for education.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

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!

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Character is power.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.