Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.

Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.

It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.

A school’s job [is] to begin education.

The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.

Pain is a pleasure in disguise.

The Good News is the gospel of Truth.

The coach who goes home and doesn't think about the game he just lost is bound to repeat his mistakes.

I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn't know how to do it.

Basically, men are afraid of women and can’t handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

I don't make sonic booms. I want a whip. I like the idea of walking around making sonic booms everywhere.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

To be great, you must be misunderstood

If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.