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

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

I want to negotiate what I’m worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, ‚This is what I’m owed now. Pay me.‘ And then we can talk.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

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.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

I’m happy about working; I’m happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It’s the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.