The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.

Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.