Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.

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.

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 a child digs for becomes his own possession.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year.

The closer I get to God, the blacker the little sins appear

While we all have a great capacity to love, very few of us will love the proper way.

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

I do not separate France from Europe.

The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.

As much as I make my music for me, I make it for the people who rock with me and follow me. They're the inspiration behind it.