“Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.”

In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

A problem well put is half solved.

In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.

We only think when confronted with a problem.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.

There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Hunger not to have, but to be.

Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.

We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.

To me faith means not worrying.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.

You can’t run a business without taking risks. The brave may not live forever – but the cautious do not live at all!

Live as if you were living already for the second time.

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Brave people don’t live forever, but cautious people don’t live at all.

I need some more reasons to live out this evening.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored