My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.

In almost everything experience is more valuable than precept.

The experience gathered from books though often valuable is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing infinite in its variety sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

I feel like in America we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it has to be done whether you like it or not.

You take the healthiest diet in the world if you gave those people vitamins they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time any place is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.