Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.

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

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

There is spontaneity to my work.

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

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Common Core is a big win for education.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

There is no education like adversity.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.