There is no education like adversity.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

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

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

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

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

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

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.