If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives—our lives and the lives of the people we touch.

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

Realize that agendas drive data, not the other way round

You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are.

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.

I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.