"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"My mom breastfed me for more than a year, and I can't imagine doing it any other way. It's cheap and much better for the environment, and you don't have to lug all that stuff around."

"Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell."

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

"Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world."