"Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one"

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows"

"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

"Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual"

"A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present"

"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue"