Les Brown

You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Pies, para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar. (“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”)

Enough or not…it will have to do.

That is what we are put in the world for, to get experience and to help others get it. It is the one thing no one can take away from us.

Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality.

I don’t know how to drive.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

I have been at it ten years. I collect them so that they will not be lost to America. We have no Egyptian mummies here, nor any relics of the Battle of Waterloo nor any curios from Pompeii. It is strictly American.