There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot live in a coed dorm have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate!

I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.

[Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he'd be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause.

The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.

I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"

To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.

You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.

A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.