If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

Knowledge is power.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

Money can’t buy life.

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.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

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

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.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

Children make your life important.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

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

Men are only as great as they are kind.

We’re all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it’s hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids‘ plates.