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

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.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Experience precedes understanding.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

Life is a dancing dream.

There is no greater crime against humanity than usury.

If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn't you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs.

Give Compassion: Every day the average person fights epic battles never told just to survive.

I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

A mutual misunderstanding.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.