What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

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

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

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.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

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

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

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

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

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

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

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.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.