The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

People are more than just the way they look.