Fallen Leaves

Let us play is as good as Let us pray, and the results are more assured.

Let us ask the gods not for possessions, but for things to do; happiness is in making things rather than in consuming them.

See him, the newborn, dirty but marvelous, ridiculous in actuality, infinite in possibility, capable of that ultimate miracle—growth. Can you conceive it—that this queer bundle of sound and pain will come to know love, anxiety, prayer, suffering, creation, metaphysics, death? He cries; he has been so long asleep in the quiet warm womb of his mother... See more

Please do not expect any new system of philosophy, nor any world-shaking cogitations; these will be human confessions, not divine revelations; they are micro- or mini-essays whose only dignity lies in their subjects rather than in their profundity or their size.

Children and fools speak the truth”; and somehow they find happiness in their sincerity.

Our children bring us up by showing us, through imitation, what we really are.

Nothing learned from a book is worth anything until it is used and verified in life; only then does it begin to affect behavior and desire. It is Life that educates, and perhaps love more than anything else in life.

Knowledge grows, but wisdom, though it can improve with years, does not progress with centuries. I cannot instruct Solomon.

Happiness is the free play of the instincts, and so is youth.