You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

Common Core is a big win for education.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

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

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

I’ve learned never to say never.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Be as you wish to seem.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

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.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.