Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.

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.

Being free means "being free for the other, " because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.

There’s no more perfect way to fall asleep then having my arms wrapped around her while I breathe in her peaches and cream scent that is mixed with the scent of us and sweat.

Don’t criticize them

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.

Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.

Big dreams turn into big things.

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it