There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

Some people would like me to be round again.

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

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

Let go of yesterday.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

One must steer, not talk.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Character is destiny.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.