I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.

Trying to eliminate worldly temptations only makes our spiritual growth limited.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t do something, because you can!

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!