When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.

Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.

Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.

Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

We don't get to decide who God is.

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.

Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

I'm not searching for the truth.That's too much pressure .

You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.

I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.