It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.

nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.

It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.