The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

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

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

Aim for the highest.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

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

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

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.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.