"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination"

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

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child"

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers"

"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"

"Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned"

"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness"

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

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future"

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