I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.

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.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Your own guilt is your own fault.

Because my life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.

I just like short hair on women I think it's cool.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I was 20. If extra work could pay for a lot of diapers, that was for me.

The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.

I try to be respectful of how other people think, I try to listen to what they're saying.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world