There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

No–one believes they’re a hero. But that doesn’t mean they’re not heroic - Captain Spectre.

Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.

Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.

We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.

India is my kid sister.