It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

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

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

What’s done can’t be undone.

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

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

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

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Man is not made for defeat.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

The best teacher is very interactive.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

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