Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.

When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.

We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word.

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.

Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.

If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.

I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.

Trans fats really are a metabolic poison.