At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

My father… removed from Kentucky to… Indiana, in my eighth year… It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up… Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I’m not a magician.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

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

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

I grew up reading science fiction.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

When I was on TV in the ’80s, I wasn’t thinking, ‚There’s a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he’s gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.‘ I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they’re influenced by me – it’s bizarre.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

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.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.