How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Experience precedes understanding.

Even if most days can’t be half as good as today, it’s days like this that make it all worth it.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.

I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.

The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.