The highest result of education is tolerance.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

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

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

I can do whatever I want.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Common Core is a big win for education.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

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

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

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

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.