Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.

We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

If we don’t make our own future, it will be made for us.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.

Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening.

I bully myself cause I make me do what I put my mind to.

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.

My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

Money always has come to me, because I always have seen myself as endlessly abundant.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?