talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used.