Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.