Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

Will we always find faults with our accommodations because of the turmoil in our own hearts?

Move what you can do at level one when you get to level one. When you get to level two, you need a bigger power to move it!

If we knew how to use the power of our thoughts, we could travel the world in a second.

Death, one way or another, would breathe life into a new order of balance today.

I've always wanted to play more comic parts.

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

When I'm on the court, it's like I'm in heaven.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.