It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

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.

Put the two of us together and we become like moonlight and fireflies... all burning and glowing and lighting up the night.

It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.

Men who are certain of everything - well perhaps they are not men at all.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you.

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

You need to take your gut feeling as an important data point, but then you have to consciously and deliberately evaluate it, to see if it makes sense in this context.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.