No one can be free unless he is independent.

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.

Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

Never take your loved ones for granted. You might lose them in a split of second and never got a chance to say good-bye.

By just looking at the dark side of life, you cannot make it bright!

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.

Build a life, don't live one...

Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.

I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.

Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.