“An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.”

“What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.”

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”

“The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.”

“The most potent force for change, however, is the growing recognition of millions of adults that their own impoverished expectations and frustrations came, in large measure, from their schooling.”

“If Lincoln had been a failure, he would have lived a longer life.”

“A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.”

“Pain is good, I'd say, when it's incidental to Love. In 'I give up my life for my friend' it is my friend, not my death, that matters. And sometimes I needn't give up my life for him, I can live for him, and with him, and the power of the spirit is then equally manifested, I should think.”

“I hated school, and dropped out of college. I got picked on a lot in school, and had a lot of trouble making friends.”

“So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?”