Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

There's only one story, the story of your life.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.