Take from others what you want, but never be a disciple of anyone.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.

When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.

Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.

I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around.

It starts with a crush, it then may turn into love, and hopefully will end up as soulmates.

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure.

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse

Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

I like characters where there's something going on and something to make him real. If you find out what somebody cares about, all of a sudden, the whole world opens up.