People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

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

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

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.