Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.