All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.

...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.