Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

I’m a huge fan of R. Kelly’s. He’s a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

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

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

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

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.