The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

- Janusz Korczak

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

- Janusz Korczak

Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own e…

- Janusz Korczak

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

- Janusz Korczak

A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people--not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now--today.

- Janusz Korczak

My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child

- Janusz Korczak

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

- Janusz Korczak

I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings.

- Janusz Korczak

If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve …

- Janusz Korczak