We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

I think music made me who I am. Music taught me what was gutter and what wasn't. Music taught me how to live.

My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.

I've always been taught that life is a series of chapters, and it's all about moving forward and not carrying around baggage.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

I read a lot of history. It has taught me that any politician has to overcome difficult periods in order to achieve their goals.