Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Ideas are the root of creation.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do.

Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country, and died for love. Now isn't that a wonderful life?

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get into trouble.

Progression: you can start from where you are.

Every year you work in Hollywood takes a year off your soul.

I guess I’m a Gemini through and through, but I’m mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.

I know what is around the corner - I just don't know where the corner is.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.