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

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Nature is not human hearted.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

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?

The cautious seldom err.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

I think whenever something is – whenever there’s something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

That government is best which governs least.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.