Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.

The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.

It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...

Say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it.

Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned

It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

... the poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow.

How do I know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing? Answer: We don't. We take it on faith.

Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.

The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.