“Every child and adult should have the skills and the tools to respond to the challenges of the world today and make the most of the opportunities that are available.”

“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”

“Every intelligent child is an amateur anthropologist. The first thing such a child notices is that adults don't make sense.”

“That should answer your question. I don't have to respond to every cretin, do I? I am already responding to most of them.”

“Young people are openly talking about democracy, representation and freedom. They want to see constitutions that are by the people for the people. Children are challenging the adult world as they respond to the energies of the New Age. They want to see friendship, humanity and goodwill manifesting throughout the world.”

“Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society… But for me, education means making creators… You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.”

“Good and few opportunities come openly, better and more opportunities accompany challenges while the best and most opportunities come in the form of challenges.”

“I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.”

“This world wants to be childish in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world, and to conceal the fact that true childishness is everywhere - that it is that of the adults themselves who come here to act the child in order to foster illusions as to their real childishness.”

“I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.”