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.

Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.

You are my one and only, for all eternity.

Life is too short to enjoy all the beauties of life.

No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.

If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.