For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

The future never just happened. It was created.

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

Either I would change lives or end them. The second option is always available.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within.

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

It's nice to live in a country that has its priorities straight: the library's open three hours a week, and the House of Fist is 24/7.

They've spread like cancer. ISIS has spread like cancer.

Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.