We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

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

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

I will not be triumphed over.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

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.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Solitude is independence.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

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

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

You can’t go backward in life.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

I never fall in love.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Information is not knowledge.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.