Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

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.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

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

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

My life is my argument.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

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

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.