I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

There is moderation even in excess.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Order is heaven’s first law.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

I’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

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.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

I don’t care about money.

There is no education like adversity.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

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 are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.