My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child

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.

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.

Take a look at the world and laugh

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

I'm not here for the money

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

I can dip the pen in my own blood if I choose.

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

I can’t see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I’m contractually obligated to do.

Blaming women is always in fashion.

The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it's also the first to be replaced.

If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?