For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

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.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

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.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

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

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.