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

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of ‚Don’t do this‘ and ‚Don’t do that.‘ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.

We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Lil Wayne, that’s my brother. Birdman, that’s family.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

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

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

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

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

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.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

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.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.