It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.

Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.

A school’s job [is] to begin education.

The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.

Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.

God doesn’t manufacture pain, but he certainly puts it to use.

I cried to the Lord. He heard my tears of prayer, from His holy hill.

I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

The writing and making of each of my albums has been such a different beast each time, so I'm interested in seeing what kind of animal the fourth one turns out to be!

Acting is all about likability.

Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

Interesting, isn’t it? What do you have to say about that, Fury? (Savitar) They’re on crack. (Fury) Anyone else on crack? (Savitar)

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.