We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

I think the human race doesn’t have a future if it doesn’t go into space.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

I’ve learned never to say never.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Forever is composed of nows.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

The future of American film lies on television.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

It is natural to want to have a future.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.