“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”

“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”

“I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!”

“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”

“It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.”

“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.”

“Beware how you take away hope from any human being.”

“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”

“Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.”

“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”