As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. I’ll carry them for the rest of my days.

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think its effortless and easy.

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

Great paines quickly find ease.

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.

I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy.

I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.