The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the sense of security that emanates from group acceptance.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

Art is literacy of the heart

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.

The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

We just held each other for warmth. I cannot recall that we even spoke to one another. Such was our shock. That day we learnt a new word—war.

It hurt like hell, but at least it felt true. Her mind could settle into that pain.

Vampires are cruel." Steopa said. "we exist to weed out the weak and the unneeded. We feed on humans.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

If I'm working on one thing, then that's all that there is going on, and there's no such thing as a side project to me. It's 100 percent.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.

Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.