Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

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.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

Rap was my drug.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

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.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‚studies‘ courses.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

A true man hates no one.

I hardly went to school.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Study men, not historians.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.