It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Common Core is a big win for education.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

All men are equal before fish.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

A right delayed is a right denied.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

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.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

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

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.