The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inlinkng of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.