Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

I’m comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it’s stretched. Ha ha.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I need physics more than friends.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

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

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

I think we need more idiot control.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

I already am a product.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

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.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.