Dalai Lama

The essence of Buddhism is, if you can, to help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Being neededdoes not entail selfish pride or unhealthy attachment to the worldly esteem of others. Rather, it consists of a natural human hunger to serve our fellow men and women.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others is the ultimate source of success in life.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

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.

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

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

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

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

College is part of the American Dream. It shouldn’t be part of a financial nightmare for families.

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

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students – they work with all students.

We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new day. Once again we must start where men would improve their society have always known they must begin – with an educational system restudied, reinforced, and revitalized.

We seldom suffer from taking our subject of study too seriously, but we usually suffer when we take ourselves too seriously.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.