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Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
An Apple for the Teacher: Fundamentals for Instructional Computing (1983)
Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.
My Several Worlds (1954)
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
What America Means to Me (1943)
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
What America Means to Me (1943)
There is something to be said for losing one’s possessions, after nothing can be done about it.
My Several Worlds (1954)
Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.
My Several Worlds (1954)
For the truly creative mind in any field is no more than this — a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
Of Men and Women (1941)
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
My Several Worlds (1954)
All things are possible until they are proved impossible — and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
A Bridge for Passing (1962)
Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
The Child Who Never Grew (1950)
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
Shri Guru Granth Sahib is a source book, an expression of man's loneliness, his aspiration, his longings, his cry to God and his hunger for communication with that being.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.
Of Men and Women (1941)
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
The Joy of Children (1966)
He must create. He must pour out creation. By some strange unknown pressing inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.