Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.

You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.

As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding.

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

Tim Tebow cannot dance, I know that. Tebow can do a lot of things, but he can not dance.

If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.

Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?

I'm not going to just do a dumb zombie movie, although I love zombie movies.

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.