If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.
Hunger makes a thief of any man.