“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”

“Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”

“What's done to children, they will do to society.”

“It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.”

“The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student and teacher here is not one of submission, but of a contest for truth.”

“Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is Himself the way”