The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.

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.

Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!

Knowledge is power but too much power tends to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

...this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody else other than myself and my supporters and my loved ones, so if my health is good, I'm going to go out there and kill it.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

A good cook can make something amazing out of even the blandest ingredients. Still, you don't want to eat the exact same dish every day.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

When something's over with me, it's over.