If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.