If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve what remains.
Janusz KorczakI am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings.
Janusz KorczakWhatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.
Janusz KorczakMan feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.
Janusz Korczak