‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

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.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

To make headway, improve your head.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Information is not knowledge.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

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

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

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

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.