Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

Emotion is not what makes us weak. It's what makes us human, The ability to care, even if people often do not.

The ideal woman to me would be the gun-toting moll. Someone who is true blue and ready to face the world. Open to ideas and suggestion, not stubborn and closed minded.

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

I'm creating songs. I do it most of the time, in the car or in the house.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

If you want to get the body you've always dreamed of, you have to earn it.

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.