I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.
They are the most painful tears in the world. . . the tears of the aged. . . for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get rid of them. Still they plagued him. Finally he wrote the department of agriculture. He enumerated all the things he had tried and closed his letter with the question: "What shall I do now?" In due course the reply came: "We suggest you learn to love them. "
Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.