When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

I write all my sermons.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

I write all of my own speeches.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

I would fain grow old learning many things.