We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

The little man is still a man.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

I love diversity.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

America is another name for opportunity.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.