No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.