The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

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.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

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.