I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

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

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

I’m not a regrets-type person.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

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.‘

Nature has always had more force than education.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

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.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Libraries raised me.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

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

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.