the heart never grows old.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.

What seems new is only new to us.

Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.