Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.

That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.

The reason I love teaching, it's like being a miner. I find all these undiscovered jewels and, with the right motivation, they're amazed at what they can do. I have to show them their capability.

I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time

It’s not the job of the teacher to save a child’s soul; it is the teacher’s job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.

I don't think we expect enough of students. They just need someone to show them the way.

Teach like your hair's on fire!

I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.

Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.

I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.

I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.

You build walls to fortify your heart, and blame on others for your loneliness.

The sky both exists and doesn’t exist. It has substance and at the same time doesn’t. And we merely accept that vast expanse and drink it in.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

Do you think there's any way humans can love each other without complication?

If and when you do decide to share your experience with your husband, it should be because you feel ready to do so, not for any other reason.

I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching. Love, Dimitri

Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.