I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

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.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

Libraries raised me.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

I love traveling all over the world; but it’s true: there’s nothing like home.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won’t get to choose your doctor – that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That’s also not true.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

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.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

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.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

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.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

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

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.