If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

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.

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

The reason why many ministers go astray is that they underestimate what they were called to do

For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America.

It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.

When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.