Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.

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.

The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.

It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.

Nothing is higher than the love of truth.

I was 12, about to turn 13. [Laura Ziffren] pretty much knew she wanted to use me, so I just had to go and do the proper protocol and audition.

About all you can do in life is be who you are.

Treat everyone how you want to be treated.

I talk to the universe all the time.

Control, edit and distill.