The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.

To be human means to feel inferior.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.