Benjamin Franklin

Time is the stuff life is made of.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Lying rides upon debt’s back.

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.

Over the years, I have again and again asked fellow believers in a free society how they managed to escape the contagion of their collectivist intellectual environment. No name has been mentioned more often as the source of enlightenment than Friedrich Hayek’s.

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

My last year in high school, I worked at a bindery, side by side with grown-ups who had been there their entire lives. Knowing that I, as a 16-year-old, was getting the same income and doing the same work… it gave me respect for those workers. But it also gave me an understanding that more is needed for folks to be able to cobble together a decent life on minimum wage.

You must work on improving your skills every day and never quit.

Education – lifelong education for everyone – from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers – is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

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

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.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

I just am not good at math.

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I’ve dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half… I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop…. I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn’t do it for fifteen.

Education can’t focus only on developing our wonderful brain. We also need warm-heartedness. This is my view.

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.

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

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‘R’, except at the beginning of a word.