I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

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

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.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Josh and I started out so easy, so fun, and now we're like strangers. I'll never have that person back, who I knew better than anyone and who knew me so well.

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlightA sly grin and a bowl full of stars

I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.

I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go.

No matter how long you spend at creation, you're always a student.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

I just got my first bikini. It's a three-piece: a top, a botton, and a blindfold for you.