If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

Thing about being free is, comes a point where you can't turn back, even if you wanted to....Even if you wanted to, they wouldn't take you. You've gone to far.

To do his best, one needs a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.

...anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.

I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

I have an attorney. I'm looking to be rich like Harrison [Ford]. I'm trying to have planes and do all that stuff.

It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

I'm tipping the hat and looking back.