"There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care"

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"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"

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"