Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

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

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

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.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Forget the past.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

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

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.