Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life
I don't like having too many projects in the pipeline. I like to focus on what's at hand.
Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
I have a serious girls’ night question for you,” said Kami. “I know you’re new to this, but I will require an answer quickly. Are you prepared to eat at least five éclairs tonight?