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

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

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.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

You are victors, not victims!

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

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

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

The best is the enemy of the good.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Don’t ever play yourself.