Occupation: Writer Birth: June 26, 1892 Death: March 6, 1973
War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its….
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the ….
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers..
Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We k….
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work..
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together..
The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing….
I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not..
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country..
The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be..
No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education….
an artist is always seeking revelation..
People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to thi….
Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and t….
At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement..
Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control..
A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... An….
It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time….
Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels ….
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way th….
There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will fin….