There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.

Love is willing to become to villain so that the one who you love can stay a hero.

Just like life, reality shifted and twisted out of her grasp [Elena's view on Gran Sasso]

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.

Trust me not at all, or all in all.

GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

I'm camera shy. I don't necessarily like being front and center. I'd rather not have my face all up in everything. I'm not trying to be some mysterious producer or anything like that.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.