Books aren't just booksthey're a completely different worldin the palm of your hands

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.

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

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Every woman deserves a man to ruin her lipstick, not her mascara

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 goes up must come down.

Powerful and Positive thoughts create Pure and Transcendental emotions that can instantly connect two individual soul in different part of this world or universe through the medium of love

Mothering you is the first thing of consequence I have ever done.

Ain’t nothing scarier than someone with nothing.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.

The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.

Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly.

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.