If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve what remains.

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.

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 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.

My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning.

Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.

...morning is the soul's night.

When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering.

Waiting is the most exquisitely painful part of loving someone.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.

I don't want to not enjoy where I am at this very moment. So, every time I plan something the exact opposite happens. I hope that I'm always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment.