Education is what you learn after you leave school.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

I focus on my own job.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Men must know their limitations.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

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.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

I never expected to be anybody important.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

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.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

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.

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.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.