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“This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.”

“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”

“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.”

“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.”

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.”

“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.”

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”

“I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.”

“Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.”

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”