There is no advance without strife.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back.

Don't stand in the way of your own light. Let yourself shine as you were meant to shine, for only you can.

I love her beyond reason.

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

It's too easy to give up on the things that are hard to accomplish.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.

The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.