Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.