“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

Study the past if you would define the future.

All people are the same; only their habits differ.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.

Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.

It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.