“My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.”

“Man is what he reads.”

“You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.”

“Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.”

“Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.”

“Education is the mother of leadership.”

“The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.”

“One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.”

“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”