To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

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.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...

You can't reinvent yourself using spare parts..."--Barry Randall from My Father's Ashes

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed

Can't living with the bill means it won't become law.

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs.