There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

Be a person who can dream about spring in the dead of winter.

All evil begins with this belief: that another’s existence is less precious than mine.

Only God is not limited in anything.

Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.

Only a heathen would bring a gun to a sword fight.' And only a moron would bring a sword to a gunfight.

Oh, this is going to be fun; he actually thinks he's teaching me something.

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

There were no ugly people in Ethiopia

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.