There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.

What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.

By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.

The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.

A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.

What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone

Through others we become ourselves.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech

It is through others that we become ourselves.

When we think of all the beatitudes in life, our heart shall be merry.

Specific knowledge is needed in every work, if we want to have success

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

[A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.

Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.

I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.

Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.