No law is an issue until someone tries to enforce it.

The mind WILL be free, or it will be dead.

Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.

When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.

The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.

He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity.

But there is one part of this that hurts. The carefree, normal part. The part of me that was lost when we first moved and that I'll never get back.

People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images.

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker

[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund that also happens to have an army.

It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.

Whenever there is love the woman blossoms. Without love, the woman shrinks. The men who love power never fall in love. Even if they fall in love they keep themselves at a distance.