“How many lessons there are and how little they are taken.”

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can’t understand it.

The best revenge is to improve yourself.

A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.

Silence is the garden of thought.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.

Don’t engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.

How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.

Accept the apology even if it is not sincere.

Hate no one, no matter how much they’ve wronged you.

A man’s worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.

I always think, what type of 11th grader would I be if I was still at school? Or if I was home all the time, would I be at the gym 24/7? Would I be as good at guitar? I know I wouldn’t be as mature as I am.

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.

In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.

I want to graduate high school, so it’s very important to me, and I’ll be focusing hard on that as well.

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.