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

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

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

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.

I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge.