As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

We ought to seek daily grace.

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to.

Her fragility makes her uncomfortable, but it has a familiarity, too, like the biting cold of winter that you only half forget during other seasons.

How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?

I want us to continue to scale and grow over the coming years in education, professional development and employment to bring about change in people's lives.

I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.

A homeless man standing at the off-ramp: the question in these moments isn't whether Jesus is in Him, but in me.

India is like Europe. This means there isone currency and numerous languages andcultures. And this is a 'Europe' made up ofvarious cultures.

When you have a childhood dream that still burns and tugs at your heart when you're an adult, you owe it to yourself to pursue and achieve this dream.

I'm pretty much able to play any style. I'm not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.