There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.

I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.