Learn how to learn, then learn what to learn
Time the devourer of everything.
A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.
The happiest thing that can be said about democracy. . . is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.
The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.
Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy. . . Don't hedge! Time flies!. . . Enlist!
Artificial manures lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.