"I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born"

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"At the heart of the Reggio Emilia approach is the belief that children are full of potential, competent, and capable of constructing their own learning"

"A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

"Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before"

"The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines"

"Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together on a journey down the water. Through an active, reciprocal exchange, teaching can strengthen learning how to learn"

"Big words seldom accompany good deeds"

"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning"