I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

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

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

‚Born this Way‘ is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

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

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.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

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

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

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.

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

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

I teach children to be winners.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.