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

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

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

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I’m tender on the inside.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

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.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.