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Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the materials of thinking, but in his sports, he actually thinks: he whets his faculties, and he opens his eyes.

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

A boy is naturally full of humor.

When you find a way to be really receptive to your child's needs and really listen, you can be more open to what they say they want or what they say they need.

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks.

Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.