Your mind is a mirror and you see yourself in it again and again.

…education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or...

He who loves, lives longer.

Don’t care about day to day things, don’t care about the mundane, but care about what matters.

Excellence is not a history, but a habit.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Ukiwapa watoto wako uhuru wa shaghalabaghala au uhuru wa kila kitu watajisahau! Wape uhuru wa mahesabu.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

When you can’t focus on one thing, you will be distracted by anything.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Happiness is when you’re content with what you have and appreciate what you get with gratitude.

I don’t care what kind of grades they give you at Delcroix. I wanted you to go there so you’d have a chance to learn how to use your gifts, and be confident enough to...

Either you will drive your life toward success, or life will drive you into the ditch.

Like many highly educated people, I didn’t have much in the way of actual skills.

Our path may be different but our purpose of journey is the same.

Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should...

In our external world we create and attract with our beliefs, thoughts, emotions and perceptions.

For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had...

Nothing is more important than our family where our heart dwells.

Thus did I receive, through the singing of these various hymns and the moral education that accompanied them, not only a religious, but a political schooling of sorts. For though the intertwining of morality and...

Creativity comes from curious, intuitive, persistent action.

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

It doesn’t matter how big you are, it matters how big your thoughts are.

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

Greatness of thoughts define greatness. Greatness in actions define immortality.

Ca să ai o societate motivată, trebuie să ai oameni motivați, iar pe oameni începi să-i motivezi încă din școală. Mai t rziu va fi mai greu, deși nu imposibil.

This moment will never ever come back, so create a memory and hold it tight.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

A busy life is an empty life.

You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your illiteracy.

If you want to get more, appreciate and express heartfelt gratitude for what you have.

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

It is better to trust and lose occasionally than always be suspicious and lose every time.

…Shouldn’t schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn’t the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students’ hands? Shouldn’t this be a front-burner issue at all...

Forgiveness is the kindest form of revenge and it brings the sweetest form of peace on earth.

As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel, an academic article, a women’s magazine, a comic, a children’s book, or the...

You will succeed in everything you want to do, so start today with your heart and with your love.

Education is the preparation of a child intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and physically for life and for eternity.

Scars are the awards of success, not the medals.

whenthings turns upside down, think it over and let new come apace

When you act with your heart, the universe conspires to help with your act.

The budget also proposes bringing the total annual state spending on education to nearly $17 billion, or 72 percent higher than when (Pataki) took office. As a result, today New Yorkers spend more than $12,000...

Live for a reason. Live with passion.

I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, un-available to us...

There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a...

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can do that.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Every thought is a potential reality.

Moral maturity and freedom require more than mere adherence to the law; they require an understanding of the why and wherefore of its rules and regulations- the principles that make it worthy of their allegiance.