The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

I love life because what more is there?

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

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.‘

Faith Hill is a big role model.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

This is not a bad life.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

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

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

What keeps me going is goals.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.