Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else's words and notes.

Belief is the driver that gives energy and power to achieve your potential.

Those who know you see your tears even in the rain.

Fashion is all about madness.

Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

I think of friendship in terms of love.

The beautiful is always severe.

Music makes the people come together.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.