I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

The mature mind seeks to follow through.