The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil:.

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.

What a child digs for becomes his own possession.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

Trust can be broken in just a few seconds, but it will only heal after years

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I'm just gonna see what happens.

Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.

I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.

We are on the planet to... wrap our consciousness around the divine treasure within us.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.