My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that's a great example for a man, a strong man, a man's man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody.


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The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
MARIA MONTESSORI
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
MARIA MONTESSORI
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the ma...
MARIA MONTESSORI
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No,...
MARIA MONTESSORI
Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. T...
MARIA BARTIROMO
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and expe...
MARIA MONTESSORI
What is a scientist? We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a m...
MARIA MONTESSORI
I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.
MARIA SEMPLE
So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper.
MARIA MENOUNOS
Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with peopl...
MARIA BARTIROMO
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
MARIA EDGEWORTH
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the diff...
MARIA MONTESSORI
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...
MARIA MONTESSORI
Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles hav...
MARIA MONTESSORI
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to ...
MARIA MONTESSORI
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a con...
MARIA MONTESSORI
There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all c...
MARIA MONTESSORI
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
MARIA EDGEWORTH
Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has ...
MARIA MONTESSORI
Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
QUEEN MARIA
If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to...
MARIA MONTESSORI
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
MARIA MITCHELL
Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
MARIA MITCHELL
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ...
MARIA LENHART
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
MARIA ROBINSON
Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
MARIA EDGEWORTH
We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this ...
MARIA MONTESSORI
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our ...
MARIA MONTESSORI
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
MARIA EDGEWORTH
I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God. Keep me on a short leash.
MARIA SC
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
MARIA ROBINSON
Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of w...
MARIA MONTESSORI
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convict...
MARIA MONTESSORI
I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of sh...
MARIA BAMFORD
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. ...
MARIA MONTESSORI
I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a stor...
MARIA SEMPLE
Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry.
MARIA CANTWELL
At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs...
MARIA MONTESSORI
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
MARIA MONTESSORI
The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that t...
MARIA MONTESSORI
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany l...
MARIA MONTESSORI
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a ...
MARIA MONTESSORI
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pu...
MARIA CALLAS
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural proce...
MARIA MONTESSORI