Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on.

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.

All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.

When we cannot get what we love we must love what is within our reach.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.

If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

When one man becomes more important than the country he's supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem.

For a moment, Percy actually remembered what it was like to be happy. He had an amazing girlfriend. They could have a future together.

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.