The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

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

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

When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.

He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.

It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

One of the dangers of making a movie about young people is it's potentially trite.

His work "The Pasture" features cast bronze cows in Toronto's financial district I wanted to remind stockbrokers what real stock is.

I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.