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

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.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

We fill our lives with meaning by serving endlessly and by learning to transcend our consciousness to a higher consciousness.

To understand the value and priorities of the kingdom is to seek

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

Selfless giving is measured by how good you feel. Self giving should be obvious.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree.

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi.

I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.