When does the loneliness of old age begin?

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.

A bad friend is is worse than an enemy, an enemy you can see and avoid, but to detect an insincere friend is hard

...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.

Our choices define who we are when we make them. Therefore,  we always have the power to change and choose who we are.

History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it.

I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

Americans are once again looking outward

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.