Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

This world rubs me raw, scours me smooth like an SOS pad put to a grease-caked skillet. And pain: it stabs and scrapes and pulls me back to earth, my final B&B, that worm-spun cot of cool black sod.

I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.

Every good thing depends on getting and keeping the power of the Holy Ghost in our lives. Everything depends on that.

When you fall down, just get up again.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.