A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?