Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.

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.

We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us.

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

I got my first flash of titties from a Venezuelan hooker.

My fear, as an American, is that our own actions are going to contribute to an inspiration for terrorists to want to harm us or kill us.

Yes, go on. Leave. You're always coming and going. The rest of us are stuck here. Do you think he'd still love you if he knew who you are? He doesn't really care—only when it suits him.

I'm a big fan of meat.

Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.

No one has nicer teeth than me. Why would anyone laugh at my lovely teeth?

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.