The most developed science remains a continual becoming

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.

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

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Experience precedes understanding.

Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you.

I must turn myself around so that I am viewing life as my prospects see it. Only then can I start addressing their issues, help to prevent their pain, and advise on solutions to their problems.

Trust is easy to give but hard to keep also it's hard to achieve but easy to lose

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.

Apparently there is nothing in the news that falls between inhuman acts of horror and kittens.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.