One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

Fearing the night won’t keep the sun from setting.

God is not afraid of pain. He does not try to keep us from it. He does not avoid it for Himself.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.

I was strongest when I laughed at my weakness.

It is so exhilarating to realize that this is all here for our expansion and for our pleasure.

He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter

I'm so grateful to be living doing what I love. Whether it's acting in Films or TV shows or writing and directing my own projects.

I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.