"After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer"

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"At the heart of the Reggio Emilia approach is the belief that children are full of potential, competent, and capable of constructing their own learning"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

"A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning"

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"

"Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before"