The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

"Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The creative process is the emergence in action of a novel relational product, growing out of the uniqueness of the individual."

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.