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.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

Rule #1 always look out for yourself first don't nobody love/care for you like you do.

The most gratifying action plan that one can conceive is one that others deem unattainable only to be proven wrong.

One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape then you can do anything or practically anything.

You can't fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.

If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.

I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.

Once you feel grateful, you are in an energy that can create miracles.

If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.

My words hang in the air. I look to the screen, hoping to see them recording some wave of reconciliation going through the crowd. Instead I watch myself get shot on television.

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.