At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

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.

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.