If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.

Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.

High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity—even among the college-educated.

Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.

In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.

As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.

Rainbows are birthed in storms, not in sunshine.

Its a sign of weakness to lament about things which you entirely have no control over.

Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.

She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.

Why do you ask The Rock stupid questions? Why are you an ugly hermaphrodite? Nobody knows, Kevin Kelly.

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On.

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.