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

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.

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

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

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.

Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments...

You can't hate your best friend for taking opportunities he'd been given. That would be the worst sort of hate, wouldn't it? Because it would mean you hate yourself, too.

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

Each person has their own calling on this Earth.

I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit.

Do whatever you want, and don't worry about what everyone else is into.

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that.

I have never been one to look beyond today.