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

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Be not a slave of words.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

How can we help President Obama?

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Only the educated are free.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

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.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.