One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

The proper study of mankind is books.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

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.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

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.

Engineering didn’t take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

I like school and I like learning.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

We will always be a family. Always.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

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