Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

The school is the manufactory of humanity.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

Preserve there [bohemia] a hidden seed to glorify thy name.

Strategic Thinking starts with the end in mind.

I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

Nothing comes naturally to me...I have to work and rework and that's where the ideas come from - from years of working on it and thinking about it.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

If I propose, you'll know it. For one thing, I'll be hyperventilating.