You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

I am in my own head most of the time.

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.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the ‚Boston Phoenix,‘ and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that’s where I first saw ‚deadpan.‘

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

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.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

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.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.