It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.

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!

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.

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.

You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude.

Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

To find yourself, you must first lose yourself

I still want to do a comedy series.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment.