I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.
I make my weaknesses my strengths and my stengths stronger.
Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen.
The most important thing is to not stop questioning.
In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.
Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.
Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.
You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people and places you have never seen before. And you are not in control. So say 'yes. ' And if you're lucky, you'll find people who will say 'yes' back.
Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.
Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.