Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

I need physics more than friends.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

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.

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.

What most people know but don’t realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn’t there, we’d be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

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

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

OVOXO will always be there.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

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

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

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

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‚Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.‘

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

There is no education like adversity.