We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

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

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

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.

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

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.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.