Our lives are a continuing journey–and we must learn and grow at every bend as we make our way, sometimes stumbling but always moving toward the finest within us.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.