Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it.

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.