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.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

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

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

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

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

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

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

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

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

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

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

There is no wealth but life.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.