There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.