It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

We must do that which we think we cannot.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.