My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

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

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

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

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

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

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

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.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

I got my own back.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.