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.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

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.‘

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.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

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

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

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

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

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

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

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 am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

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

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

I teach children to be winners.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.