Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.

Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.

I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a haven for people who suffered from abuse by their own government.

The whole thing is just ripe to be a very good thing.

Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.

The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs, you have to choose your genre.

I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.

Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears