Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.

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.

Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.

If you'll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now.

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.

You can have a great script, and it can be a great show, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't take the public's interest.

Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.