Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

When you slowly and gently get lost in love, you become infinite.

On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

I firmly believe that Harper's Bazaar is the star. I am there to make it the best it possibly can be, but there should be no confusion. I want to put Harper's Bazaar front and center.

It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.

Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren't really a band at all.