Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respect, as equals. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be - The unknown person inside each of them is the hope for the future.

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary.

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.

Life bites like a dog.

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

I am well versed in reading the pages of war.