What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

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.

You cannot taste a song but you can feel the tune relishing your heart where strings of music belong.

We are all the construction of a story and it is only at the end that we can assess the value of the plot. ("Everybody his story")

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.

Share prices fluctuate more than share values.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

If that day comes when I'm done with the acting and singing, I'll just pack it in and go home.

Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection.