Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart’s desire.

Failure is not mere failure. It is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Education is not an affair of telling and being told, but an active and constructive process.

You know you have reached perfection of design not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.