The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

A lie cannot live.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I liked watching Rossi, his style, his colours and everything. He was someone I looked up to and until now he is still my only hero. He is the king of motorbikes and most people like Rossi mainly because he comes across as a pretty fun and good character. He is cool and has a good style and look.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

I was an overnight sensation.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

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

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Change alone is unchanging.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.