The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.