The school is the manufactory of humanity.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

Preserve there [bohemia] a hidden seed to glorify thy name.

What makes and experience a memory is when we share with someone, the emotions we felt

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.

I've learned... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

You know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I've been down. So don't worry about anything.

I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.

On the set, I'm a businessman.

If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.