Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

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.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.

I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

The world is full of guys. Be a man. Don't be a guy

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.

Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know.

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.

It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of.