Leo Tolstoy

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Many of my students don’t know that I’m second lady of the United States… because, you know, it’s a community college.

All of life is a constant education.

[On his donation of $100 million to UCLA in 2012 adding to the $200 million he donated in 2002] The cost of a world-class medical education should not deter our future innovators, doctors and scientists from the path they hope to pursue. We need the students at this world-class institution to be driven by determination and the desire to do their best work and not by the fear of crushing debt. I hope in doing this that others will be inspired to do the same.

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

I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

I went to college on an art scholarship at the American Academy of Art, but the education comes from being passionate about objects, spaces, colors and the way they affect your senses.

All students can learn and succeed, but not on the same day in the same way.

All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Sometimes you get educated by being really bothered by things and you have to educate yourself on how to respond.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

Women who are interested in pursuing bachelor’s and master’s degrees – especially in STEM fields – benefit from starting at a community college. They offer an affordable education, with flexible schedules and degrees close to home.