What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

A man’s character is his fate.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Information is not knowledge.

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

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

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

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

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

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

I like school and I like learning.

I’m not a bad person.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

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.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women’s movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘