The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow.

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.