If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

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.

To find yourself, learn to love yourself.

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

Somtimes silence can be the loudest thing.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.

Get in the habit of appreciating things.

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them.

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.