Happiness is a perception of the mind that comes from forgiveness and love.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Often we read to strengthen our beliefs but not to think.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Don’t give a gift with expectation to get but if you have got a gift always try to give.

Planning has no magic whereby you can elicit figs from thistles or choke-pears from vines. The rich, sappy, fruit-laden tree will bear sweetness, and strength and spiritual health: the dry, prickly, withered tree will teach...

Today’s dreams create tomorrow’s hope. So act today and hope for the best.

Consider now the primal scene of education in the modern elementary school. Let us assume that a teacher wishes to inform a class of some 20 pupils about the structure of atoms, and that she...

Let dreams shine. Let hope bloom again.

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.

Hope is the light, trusted guide in darkness.

The most important condition for progress is freedom of the mind.

Be joyful, beautiful, tranquil like a tree.

As sunlight is for flowers, so is love for life.

Never try to be happy but always try to make someone happy. All the happiness in the world will be yours.

To expand our life, be loving and kind.

Our experience of the governments of the world, our knowledge of the weapons at their disposal, and our awareness of our own limitations justify pessimism. But some mysterious factor deep in the human psyche has...

Stress steals the beauty from life.

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not...

The best things to hold on to are the memories of friendship and love.

The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation and requires veganism as a matter of fundamental justice, is radically different from the welfarist paradigm, which, in theory focuses...

Love heals the soul and cures the mind.

Happiness absolutely depends on how you think.

Be simple but think great to be great.

We are deeply disappointed that the administration has chosen, once again, to eliminate federal funding for education technology. Understanding and using technology are critical components of all students’ academic careers ‘¦. We do not see...

Be brave enough to listen to your heart, be bold enough to hope for the best.

My mother delayed my enrollment in the Fascist scouts, the Balilla, as long as possible, firstly because she did not want me to learn how to handle weapons, but also because the meetings that were...

We are here, not to be someone, but to live joyfully, blissfully and love everyone.

But I’ve learned that intelligence alone doesn’t mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there’s one thing you’ve all overlooked: intelligence and...

Music is the language of the heart; it makes our soul dance with joy.

We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people.

For success, optimism is more important than opportunity.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Oh my love, pure and divine love,I want to drown in youand then get lost,to find myself again and again,as a symbol and source of love,pure, blissful and divine.

Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say to somebody “I love you”, when you are considering your children, when you...

Always try to be someone of value than someone famous.

There’s still this cultural hangover from a different era, when you could get a good job without a postsecondary education. That era is over.

You have no enemy except yourself.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative,...

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.”[Letter to Herbert Putnam; in: Waters, Edward N.: Herbert Putnam: the...

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

Trust everyone and love everyone, you will never lose.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Greatness never comes from having power, but it embraces you when you empower.

If I don’t succeed, I will try again and never stop trying.When I succeed, I will again explore new opportunities.

Life is an endless journey. I travel just to unfold the beauty of my life.

A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of...

You are my light! In my mind, in my heart, and in my eyes. If you’re not, then how can I see you?

We may not have the choice to be rich or comfortable, but whatever happens; we do always have the choice to be an educated person.

Gratitude transforms our mindset from enough to abundance and opens the window of limitless potentials.