“Art, to be fully appreciated, must be true to contemporaneous life. It is not that we should ignore the claims of posterity, but that we should seek to enjoy the present more. It is not that we should disregard the creations of the past, but that we should try to assimilate them into our consciousness.”

“The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.”

“People claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.”

“We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment”

“We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.”

“I don’t think we should try to make space our own. I believe that as modern people we should live in mobility. We should always be moving.”