Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.

Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.

That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well.

In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.

The future belongs to the educated.

I'd always liked her in a way I never had to think about, like the fact of my own hands.

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

I like being absurd. Being silly.

Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction

Becoming is superior to being.

The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish.

Who can control his fate?