I never forgive attacks on my work.

I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.

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?

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.

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

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

You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.