There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

God has entrusted me with myself.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Nature has always had more force than education.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

I’m much healthier now.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

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

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

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.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.