There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes…

- Ethel Percy Andrus

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

- Ethel Percy Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.

- Ethel Percy Andrus

Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.

- Ethel Percy Andrus

It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of …

- Ethel Percy Andrus