I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail start all over again and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose not the one you began with perhaps but one youll be glad to remember.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.

I love my body because it's what I've been given. Being too thin is just as unhealthy as being obese.

My boyfriend - Matt Kaplan - is American, so any time I'm unsure of how to say something, I say, 'Hey how do you say this?' and he yells it out.

It's a little counterintuitive to people, that doing what people don't expect ends up being what people do expect. But that is true of Mac.

I want to make this world perfect.

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

I love Stella McCartney because she's timeless and classic, and I love Isabel Marant for wearability - you don't need 'an occasion' for her clothes.

I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.

Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live.

I gave everything I ever wrote to Johnny Cash. I think he said later in some interview that he would take them home and throw them in the lake with all the other demos. I'm sure he got a million of them.

I love people, and the hustle.

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

I'm a chef, I own restaurants, and there's a behavior in the kitchen you have to have.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

This idea that clumsy stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous because intelligence is related to neurologic function and really intelligent people are very well coordinated.

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!