"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war."

"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."

"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'"

"Books are challenging and inspirational to me."

"Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard  Are sweeter."