"Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge"

"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"

"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"

"A gift in season is a double favor to the needy"

"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift"

"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"

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

"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge"