If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.

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.

Regret is good. It proves you have a conscience.

Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

To learn is to change how you think.

The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in it.

The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.

Writing is an adventure.