To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ... Therefore, he who differentiates well teaches well.

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.

The school is the manufactory of humanity.

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.

It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.

Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.

The path of light is the quest for knowledge.

When the church begins to entertain the flock and respond to the cult of self—it is diminished to a mere community center.

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.

What you meditate on is what you believe.

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let the Master Storyteller do the writing.

Fans aren't just fans... they're part of my family.