True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.

Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.