Ajahn Chah

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

My first task is to help students reject 18 years of poor learning that teaches them that knowledge is a product rather than a process.

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.

I came in early every day for six months till I intercepted the letter from UCLA saying they’d never heard of me. I replaced it with a letter that said I’d graduated.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

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

The more you learn the more you realize how much you don’t know.

What I’m learning is that there is so much to unlearn.

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

In our culture and in culture sometimes they make you feel a little be weird for being smart… but we are intelligent people and our dreams matter regardless of if you speak with an accent and people think that that makes you not intelligent.

As a community college professor for over twenty years, I’ve seen the determination, resilience and dedication of countless students. Regardless of circumstances, they show up. They work hard. They believe anything is possible.

[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.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

It doesn’t hurt to get more education.