I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.

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.

Don’t be afraid to take a chance.The worst that can happen is thatyou don’t succeed … this time.

The sense of national emergency engendered by war transforms the destruction of dissident opinion into patriotism.

Madison, or “Maddie, ” as she preferred, wondered what could be at the end of that road.

I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.

It gets tiring being a smartass.

If I can live through the events,” she said, “I can get through the memories.

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.

Everything I've always done has been for the sole purpose of increasing my lovemaking output. A lot of guys won't admit that, but I do. I just want to make love.

I have dated all races and I believe you should be free to do whatever you want.

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.