Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity.

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.

You are worthy of your wildest dreams.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.

Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.

I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.