"Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land."
"Our attitude towards ourselves should be "to be insatiable in learning" and towards others "to be tireless in teaching""
"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience"
"All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me."
"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires."
"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."
"A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions."
"Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's."
"As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job."
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