"Let us not turn schools into dumps when we go out and vote on Monday."

“In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.”

“No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.”

Source : Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.120, Courier Corporation

“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”

“Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.”

“Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.”

“If I stop pushing you, if I stop demanding of you, if I stop getting on you, then I probably don't think you have much to offer.”

“Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.”

“Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and in return receive and appreciate their help.”