The mind WILL be free, or it will be dead.

Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.

When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.

No law is an issue until someone tries to enforce it.

The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.

The thought that your time and your life will melt away should create a sense of urgency to do something of worth with it before it all melts away.

When quitting is done correctly, it isn't giving up - it's making room for something better.

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

Drinking turns a fool into a merry fool.

I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.

I'd feel more comfortable talking to the blacks, or Hispanics, or the poor areas. I feel more at home, believe it or not.

The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.

Political correctness is a minefield

It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.

As a competitor and an athlete, you have to believe in yourself. And you have to believe in the people who believe in you.