The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

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.

You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future.

When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before.

We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal - everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.

When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Never let a crisis go to waste

I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.