If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.

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.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

The more a man understands the world, the more he falls in love with everyone and everything.

I'm a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, 'Enjoy life. Celebrate life.'

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

I don't think there is a woman in her 40s who doesn't, kind of, examine herself in the mirror.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

If we go out there and do our best every game, then I will take my chances that the results will be more good than bad.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.