“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
“Above all, don't lie to yourself.”
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
“Beauty will save the world.”
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
“Democracy must be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.”
“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.”
“We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
“I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.”