Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

You keep squintin' in Savage's dark corners, you gonna wish yourself blind.

You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.

Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again

Always take much less than you think you'll need.

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

It's not easy staying relevant in the marketplace.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

Dogs never lie about love.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.