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.

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.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.

Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you

The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful.

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple?

When we have gone beyond the boundaries of hope and fear, we are able to work with whatever comes our way.

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.