The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Every man is his own hell.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Our life is made by the death of others.

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

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

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Actor’s life is very long.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

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

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

What we think, we become.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Death is a fearful thing.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.