Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

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

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

I’m not really book-smart.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

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

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

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.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

The proper study of mankind is books.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

Children always turn to the light.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.