"The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!"

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'"

"We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."

"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"

"People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on."

"I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere."

"Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again."

"If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script."