The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.

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.

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

Laughter survives... it has to survive.

One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.

There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.

The streets weren't paved with gold and Rose petals [when I was young]. "Do I have a horn to sell this month to pay my rent, or what am I going to do?" It was what it was.

I've noticed a funny thing about people who are over-weight. They spend all their time thinking about food -except when they're actually eating it

Never lose faith in yourself; you can do anything in the universe.