Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push and educational message.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.