If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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.

Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

When there is nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.

In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection.

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

But how can finite grasp Infinity?

Beirut is where I was born and raised.

It has always been my goal to believe in what I do and love what I do and be true to that.

Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.