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

I’m selfish.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

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!

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

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?

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

I hardly went to school.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

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

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

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

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

Power is competence.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

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