For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

To reproduce your life is to convert it into tangible products for the benefit of humanity. To reproduce your life is to impact the world with it.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

I didn't mean to turn you on.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

Your honor, why would anyone in their right mind park in the passing lane?

My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.