Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

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.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

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