Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way and always end up learning something I didn't know.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life but in a new way.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning four years were spent refining and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

If you use your mind to study reality you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind you'll understand both.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

In terms of the principles of politics I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership who has the management skills to help the country.