Leo Tolstoy

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it. – Vronksy (Anna Karenina)

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

You are your own teacher. Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.

Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

The biggest little thing for entrepreneurs is the lifelong commitment to education.

Do not neglect your life skills, which should include a healthy dose of financial education.

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

[On school] Not only did I know that I wasn’t one of the smart kids in the class, but so did everyone else.

An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

Community colleges are certainly one of America’s best-kept secrets.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.