You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.

If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today.... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.