We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

The work you have to do to accomplish your needs and desires is going to be a harder road than working on the needs and desires for someone else.

We always talk about human salvation. But we must first decide whether we deserve salvation?

I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.