Never seek your value from your father's accomplishments, your real value lies in what you achieve. That's what defines you read more

Never seek your value from your father's accomplishments, your real value lies in what you achieve. That's what defines you and that's what you will be remembered by.

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal read more

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great read more

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common read more

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.