The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.