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

To me faith means not worrying.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

To me, faith means not worrying.

I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.

Wonder is the mother of all science.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.

The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.

I’ve been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It’s boring.

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

I insist that people – wherever they live – have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

I live for the moment – not the future, not the past.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.