You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.