I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I write all of my own speeches.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Freedom lies in being bold.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

Nobody’s indispensable.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

I’m not a futurist.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‚Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number‘ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

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

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

You can stroke people with words.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.