Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

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.

Self-questioning – an effort to get in touch with our essential self – is an endless stream of thought.

The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.

Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

I love the summer.... the warm weather, hangin out with friends, and swimmin in the warm water..... but most importantly grabin a glove and a ball and playin some softball in the heat.

I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage.

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.