History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

There is no education like adversity.

London is a roost for every bird.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

No great thing is created suddenly.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

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.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it’s not evenly distributed.

Political courage is not political suicide.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

It’s a very good historical book about history.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.