I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

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

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

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.

Common Core is a big win for education.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

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?

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Children always turn to the light.

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.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.