"One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in."

“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse?”

Source : Jane Nelsen, Ed.D. (2011). “Positive Discipline: The Classic Guide to Helping Children Develop Self-Discipline, Responsibility, Cooperation, and Problem-Solving Skills”, p.303, Ballantine Books

“A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...”

Source : "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 45), 1988.

“The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.”

“That was liquid football”

“You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.”

“Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.”

“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

“For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.”