I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt – you know, I had to go out and do them.

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

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

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.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

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

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

Common Core is a big win for education.

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

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

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

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I believe in singing.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.