No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

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.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that makes you smile.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can’t afford the time to think.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

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

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.