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

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

There is no education like adversity.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

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.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you can take action and use it.