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

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

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.

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

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

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

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.