War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

Nothing is menial where there is love.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.

Most mothers kiss and scold together.