Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

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

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

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.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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

There is no love of life without despair of life.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Some people would like me to be round again.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

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.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

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

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.