In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was ‚Einstein.‘

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

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.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

I’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I’d call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I’d take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor’s room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!