An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.

What a child digs for becomes his own possession.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

Allow the fear to keep you sensible but not to keep you still. If you're afraid of the dark then open your eyes, see that you are home.

I pressed my hand against her hair, holding her to me, filled with the certainty that she was going to hurt me again and that I didn't have the strength to push her away before she did.

If God is going to write your loves story, He's going to first need your pen.

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.

Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me.

Siri has proven to us that people want to relate to the phone in a different way.

Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.