"The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency"

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

"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness"

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

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

"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character"

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run"

"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity"

"Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die"

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us"

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes"