I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

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.

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

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.

Love, an ocean.

The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous lies.

I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

I'm inspired by everything that I encounter, from the environment to people to other songs, movies and artists.

Preparation is the biggest key right now.