The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

The Library is the heart of the University.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

Write until your idea becomes reality.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all of our tomorrows.

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

Unlike multiculturalism, cultural pluralism doesn't just mean diversity but also togetherness - primarily the understanding of the rules of the game - the European values structure.

I want people to take me seriously as an artist and to hear that I have something to truly say and to offer.

My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

Conceived in anger, addicted to hate, the mutant child of a twisted state.

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.