Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.

Sometimes you have to separate yourself from the ones you love for a season, so God can reveal things to you by His spirit.

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

Creation is ready to serve you, if you just be you.

Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

. . . when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can.

All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.