The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

They were absolutely lovely, and in their presence, so was she.

Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain.

We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.

Five acts - humility, gratitude, vegetarianism, yearning, and crying - get you "It". Have you tried it?

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn't know much about living.

Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.