I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

I give the children education.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

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

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

The proper study of mankind is books.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Not all those who wander are lost.

In every country except – industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That’s one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

There is no education like adversity.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

We’ve got to keep our eye on what’s happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.