When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.