The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.