A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.
What’s the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren’t enough folks with sense to go around?
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it – why – there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.
Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.
The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.
Taking somebody’s sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You’re only the poorer.