Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years.

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!!

Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'

To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation.