To know enough about things is one prerequisite for (having) wonderful ideas.

Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great.

Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach.

You don't want to cover a subject; you want to uncover it.

But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data

When you've attained to your hidden within your apparent vice versa, know that you have reached Eternal Time, and Divine Presence. The Communion is in the Breath.

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.

Ay call it holy ground The soil where first they trod. They have left unstained what there they found - Freedom to worship God.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing it at the time and my dad encouraged it. He encouraged any extracurricular activity.

You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart

I have lived according to rules that I embrace, but I don't feel like my job is to force others to embrace the rules that I embrace for myself.