I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

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

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

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?‘

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

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

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

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Get off your horse and drink your milk.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

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

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

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

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

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.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.