“It's not the words but the music that counts.”

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

“إن ظهور وازع الضمير عند الطفل (6-10), و ارتباطه بالجهد العنيف الذي يبذله للحصول على مزيد من الإستقلال عن والديه, يتضحان في وقفه الجديد من الدين. فهو عندما كان في الرابعه مثلاً كان يتقبل فكرة الله و يرتبط به على الأساس الذي يمليه عليه والداه. و لكنه حين يبداً في التباعد عن والديه و يأخذ في مناقشة سلامة آرائهما, و يتطلع إلى العالم الخارجي بحثاً عن سلطه جديده يستلهمها الرأي السديد, فمن الطبيعي أن يحل الله -إلى حد ما- محل أبيه بوصفه السلطه العليا.لذا فإن حاجته النفسيه لأن يحدد الفرق بين الخطأ و الصواب تحديداً قاطعاً, تجعله مستعداً, بل سعيداً لأن يتقبل تعاليم الدين”

“The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidences in themselves - happy. They will have a spirit that will make the best of all the capacities that they have, and of all the opportunities that come their way. They will make light of any handicaps.”

“Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.”

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. Those who submit - as the majority does - are conditioned to a life lived without their human birthright: work done with the joy and creativity of love.But what are schools for if not to make children fall so deeply in love with the world that they really want to learn about it? That is the true business of schools. And if they succeed in it, all other desirable developments follow of themselves.In a proper school, no fact would ever be presented as a soulless one, for the simple reason that there is no such thing. Every facet of reality, discovered where it lives, startles with its wonder, beauty, meaning.”

“Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.”