When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.

When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.

We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word.

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.

Leading people is like cookingDon’t stir too much
It annoys the ingredients
And spoils the food

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

Hemmingway was a jerk.

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.

I did such a gigantic eye roll I almost fell over.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.