You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives

The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don’t spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won’t get higher student outcomes.

My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon.

I like when a man has a positive self-image, no matter what he looks like. I'm not into rock-hard abs.

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

I don't do drugs, though. Just weed.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.

Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.

I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good

To take advantage of unexpected opportunities, we must leave ourselves available.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.