A school’s job [is] to begin education.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.

Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.

It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.

The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.

Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.

A person without a purpose is a human being merely breathing because he does not know where he is, let alone knowing where he is going. Purposelessness is lifelessness.

Our existence and our environment enclose entities of divinity.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy

Chicago keeps getting all these complete games. Im expecting 50 cent hot dogs.

I changed my life today. What did you do?

God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.

Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.