The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.