To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Education is the best provision for old age.

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

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

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

If you’ve ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you’ll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

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.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

The best teacher is very interactive.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

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.

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.

Tell the children the truth.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

When in doubt tell the truth.

I don’t have anything to hide.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?