Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.

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.

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.