Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

We are wiser than we know.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

I’m not really book-smart.

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

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

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.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.