Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own eyes and feelings.

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.

I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings.

A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people--not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now--today.

Dare to dream... something will always come of it

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of yourself. (emphasis added)

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

Take a look at the world and laugh

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

To create the magic, you should first believe in it.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.

That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast.

Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles