Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children’s hands.

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.

The amount of abhorrence that departs, that much of ‘Pure Love’ arises. When abhorrence goes away completely, then Pure Love arises in totality. This is the only way.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

The more flexible we become in our thinking and being, the more we open ourselves to self-awareness & growth.

The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.

No one can will the will to will what it will not will!

Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.