The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

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.

For an atheist you will be always considered as a human no matter what, but for a religious if you don’t belong with them, you are always an infidel.

If God had a wife He would be in just as much trouble as any man.

Sometimes a day is a symbolic day, and you behave symbolically. Sometimes you search inside for a feeling, and, finding none, you remember that no feeling is frequently the most possible feeling.

If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.

It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.

The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

Money should never change one’s values…. Making money is only a report card. It’s a way to tell how you’re doing.