Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together, he had the ridiculous urge to smile.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.