Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

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.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

Life loves the liver of it.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

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.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

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

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

Our motto at Blue Origin is ‚Gradatim Ferociter‘: ‚Step by Step, Ferociously.‘

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

We’re all dreamers.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.