I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

The best teacher is very interactive.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

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

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

People tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

I’ve had everything pierced at some point.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

My father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

I don’t do research. I never have.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

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.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

When I was little… I didn’t relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so – she was so elegant.