Only the educated are free.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

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

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

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.

I can express myself.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

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.

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

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

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

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

I’m a can-do girl.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

It’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Character is power.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.