On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must see that every child gets the advantages and opportunities which are due him as a citizen and as a human being.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

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.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.