The happiest thing that can be said about democracy is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility. - Harry Allen Overstreet
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. - Harry Allen Overstreet
A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race. - Harry Allen Overstreet
I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power. - Harry Allen Overstreet
Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. - Harry Allen Overstreet