Think well of all, be patient with all, and try to find the good in all.

We all must try to be good.

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen

All the things that make life worth living take work.

We have to get better at thinking, deliberately and intentionally, about the big questions. On the complicated things. On understanding what’s really going on with a person, or a situation, or with life itself.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Good, bad, and indifferent - It takes all sorts to make a world.

Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all — by example.

I tell them about the untapped resources, natural and human, that the world has at its disposal, the abundant ways and means to solve its many crises. All we have to do, I tell the students, is work and study, study and work, hard as we can. Put another way: We must all be professors of the jungle.

You have to be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up.

So let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing; learn to labor and to wait.

But you must love with a high, serious intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence, and you must always seek to know more thoroughly, better, and more.

It takes all kinds to make a world.

You have to be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else — that’s how you’ll get ahead.