Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.

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.

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.

Regret is an appalling waste of time.

I'm a bad dater. I'm the most socially awkward person, like carrying on conversations and stuff.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft

Church was a requirement, there was no choice in the matter, so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.

The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.

True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).