Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young