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.

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.

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.

Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

I'm great at lying to myself.

Ignore the reek of feces in the air, the bloodstains on the ground, and you have yourself a glorious night.

There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.

The world is a clock winding down.

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.