Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

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.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.

If you are opportunity oriented, you will find opportunities all around you. If you are problem oriented, you will see problems all around you.

Never shame your comrades by letting their death get you killed

Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

Tiger Woods is stupid; not for cheating, but for having one cell phone. What type of player you know has one cell phone?

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

When we fall on the ground it hurts us, but we also need to rely on the ground to get back up.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.