I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Visible obstacles shine a light on hidden opportunities.

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.

Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.

The great would have none great and the little all little.

So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.

What do I do now?” “I don’t know. Fade away, perhaps. Or find another role.

The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it.

Japanese movie "Be With You" served as inspiration for "Love Box." I couldn't fill up the album with just my experiences.

I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.