If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.