Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

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.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.