All knowledge pursued merely for the enrichment of personal learning and the accumulation of personal treasure leads you away from the path

I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have to worry about numbers." I didn't think I was going to be famous or a star.

In order that the mortar in the joints may not suffer from frosts, drench it with oil-dregs every year before winter begins. Thus treated, it will not let the hoarfrost enter it.

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

Greatness comes by beginning something that doesn't end with you.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

Diversity drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn limit what problems we can solve.

Charles is Charles. Wale is Wale. It's two separate entities that have nothing to do with each other and probably will never have anything to do with each other and I wish him the best.