“There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.”

I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Without love we fall ill.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

There are no mistakes.

If youth knew; if age could.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Is there anything more important than a child?

And I think that’s what life is all about, actually, about children and flowers.

My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.

Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.