Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.

When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.

We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word.

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.

Creating Identity

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.

Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.

When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

She was drowning-in friendliness, in community-and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.