Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Awaken your mind from the deep sleep of ancient mysticism and make it self-conscious - power will come, glory will come, goodness will come and everything that is excellent will come.

We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

Any team can have a bad century.

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

It's a crooked system, but gin straight take the pain away.

Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his mind?'