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.

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.

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.

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

Anger should be your servant, not your master

My burden is my purpose. Without it, I wouldn't be.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

A person who wields power cannot see truth

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

Imagination is more valuable than information.

When it is possible that people don't understand my English, I take my guitar and speak with my music!

The new book is amazing. It's called, The Pleiadian Promise. I get emotional when I just connect to it, because it's really an amazing, powerful, powerful piece of work.

Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.