"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

"God has entrusted me with myself."

"Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become so through habit."

"Do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands."

"Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."