“People always loved best what they identified most with.”

“Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.”

“It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.”

“Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign”

“Don’t you know? – the best love stories are always the most tragic ones.”

“We always teach best what we most need to learn.”