I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

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.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

Loudness is impotence.

You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers.

I think you'll just have to wait for that Loser of the Month tiara a little while longer while I wear it, with pride, around my neighborhood.

I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair?

There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.