Today is a reader, tomorrow's a leader...

The mark of someone with potential to grow is openness to the process. When you look at people who are eager to learn more, you can bet they are on the right track. And when you talk to people who just don't want any more instruction, then they have pretty much hit the wall. They are done.

Application: Applying what you've learned is sometimes difficult because it requires change. Most people change only when one of three things happens: they hurt enough that they have to, they learn enough that they want to, or they receive enough that they are able to. Your goal is to keep learning so that you want to change for the better every day.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Education must precede motivation.