A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

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.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

God has entrusted me with myself.