Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

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.

If the Almighty directs our steps, we've no need to look back over our shoulders.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.

Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on.