When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.

When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?