What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.