Children, being small and weak, have little market value.

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.

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him

May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?

These are clearly the end times, and now we understand why the prophets warned us about the Trump of Doom.

My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.

the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.