Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.

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.

Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.

Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.

Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie.

But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.

To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.