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.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

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 was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I’ve met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet – I just shut up and bow down.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

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

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

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

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

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 was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

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 heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.