Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

The wisest have the most authority.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

My business is to prevent the future.