Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

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

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

To me faith means not worrying.