Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Experience precedes understanding.

If you have to criticize, do it with deep understanding and love.

You have a right to dream big but you don't have to kill your dream

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

Taking care of yourself is so important.

Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day.

I was never a cardholder. But I was leftist in the sense that I voted communist.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.