It is better to rust out than wear out.

The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm.

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through, and at the end, 'The dream is true!'

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

A friendship like theirs was hard to come by, and when such a thing is found, it is often even harder to hold on to.But, as so few come to learn, absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.

No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down.

We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

If I ruled the world Imagine that...