You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

The Library is the heart of the University.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because we don't know what to do with it.

Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again.

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.

We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

Men are sensitive in strange ways. If a man has built a fire and the last log does not burn, he will take it personally.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

Calculated and craven political stunt.