Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Experience precedes understanding.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

May God grant children who will fear and revered Him.

Your heart influences your art.

Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.

In my world, I am one of the luckiest humans alive.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.

America is the only developed nation in the world with no guaranteed paid leave of any kind. That means we're leaving a whole lot of talent on the sidelines.

I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.