We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Nothing recedes like progress.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

I think the human race doesn’t have a future if it doesn’t go into space.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

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

Experience is the teacher of all things.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.