When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

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.

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.

Spending time with God is the greatest treasure.

It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.

Why compare yourself to others? You never know what people have endured to get where they are.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going.

And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright he is.

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.