The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

Lines don't make beautiful women less beautiful

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

I want to crush everyone. I want to outsmart everyone.

I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics.

The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!