You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.