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

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.

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.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die.

Officiating is the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who is doing it.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.