Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.

You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.

The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody.

111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have on things we do not need?

Don't touch your brows. I've never done anything to my eyebrows.

There is no weapon in the feminine armory to which men are so vulnerable as they are to a smile.

I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

When I was a kid, I always thought that acting was going to be the way to go.