A person cannot all of a sudden become good at what they do just by switching streams.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

Sometimes life decides that we must also take care of ourselves in other ways and love, the way we perceive it, must reflect only upon us.

Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.

Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

London. Another terrorist attack and ISIS claimed credit. I am surprised because I thought we had wiped out ISIS on day one as Donald Trump said.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

To make a low-budget independent is not easy work.