I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

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.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it.

He who owns little is little owned.

I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you.

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.

The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.

It's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.