Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.

Joy is the feeling of one's powers increasing.

When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: "All human beings by nature desire to know.

Homework doesn’t end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning.

Trust your heart, especially when it is a strong one.

You'd better hurry up to the Gard and back. God knows what depravity we might get up to here without your guidance.

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

It is where we embrace our questions. . . . Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions?