I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

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.

Same shit, different day, he thinks, but now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness that feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

My will to live completely overcame my desire to win

Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

A trusting heart is forgiven and, in turn, forgives.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable.

War knows no law except that of might.

I just want to be humble at all times.

Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.