I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

The people in my songs are all me.

I love being busy.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

I’m tender on the inside.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.