Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.

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.

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task.

We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Everything that is fear cannot be love, and everything that is love cannot be fear.

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.