Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

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.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.