The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.