Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

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

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.