Betty Smith Quotes

Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.

School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

That's like the greatest experiences of my life still, 'Friends,' so it's not something I want to get away from, but I do want to try and show something new.

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.

My whole life has been one of seeking experience.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

When certain doors opened around 'Twin Peaks,' I wasn't interested in walking through them. Now I just feel like I'm more open to life. I have two children. My life is not dependent on the business in that way.

I'd like to believe that tomorrow is another challenge for me. I'm sure there is lots more for me to do, because there is lots and lots of stuff still to be explored.

You can't just shuffle people around like they're deck chairs on a ship. You have to help them change their lives, and you have to give them the requisite resources to do so.

I think I found roles which weren't the roles I thought I'd be doing but they were the kind that brought me where I never imagined myself to be.

I'm interested in doing anything that teaches me something.

Where I'm from, there ain't a lot of other options, you know what I'm saying? Entertainment or football or crime. I don't want to spread the message that all you can do is music or sport. You can be anything. Anything. That's the message I like to spread.

When I got to Oak Hill, I got a chance to learn. I learned a lot about myself, basketball and about school. If would have stayed in Texas, I probably wouldn't have graduated.

Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.