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

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.

When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

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

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

When there's no way out, you just follow the way in front of you.

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.