I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.

The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?

I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.

Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason, ” “progress, ” alcohol, work.

Nothing made you realize how much you’d been ignoring your heart, until someone came along and smacked it awake simply by existing.

Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.

Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin.

Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.

There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.

I'll be in Hell before you start breakfast!

All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.