The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

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.

I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

Science is beautiful because of its endless curiosity.

When you serve the humanity with compassion and kindness, You express your spontaneous love and inner greatness.

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.

In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.

You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet.

Distance is the Enemy of Awareness.

People always ask me what I'm doing on the subway, but I love it! Sometimes I like to ride in the front car and look out the window at the rats.