If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

What children learn from punishment is that might makes right. When they are old and strong enough, they will try to get their ownback; thus many children punish their parents by acting in ways distressing to them.

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

Creativity stands at the center of all education.

No longer can we be satisfied with a life where the heart has its reasons which reason cannot know. Our hearts must know the world of reason, and reason must be guided by an informed heart.