My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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 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 kids are old enough now – I just want to let them be kids. I don’t want to comment on them too much. They’re at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

I’m not a parenting expert. In fact, I’m not sure that I even believe in the idea of ‚parenting experts.‘ I’m an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I’m an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

If I ever had twins, I’d use one for parts.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

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.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

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

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.