The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful.

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.

My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child

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.

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it.

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.

I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.