If you treat every question like you've never heard it before, your students feel like you respect them and everyone learns a lot more. Including the teacher.

It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.

My world got very small, the way it always does when someone in your family is sick.

It’s a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.

True peaceful state is that when one has inner peace amidst total lack of peace on the outside. Bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst external turmoil is ‘tested’ samadhi.

…there was no more that I could do to make myself look better in that moment than smile and be kind…

I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.

Preventive Maintenance: Don't start today by doing yesterday's work.

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.

Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?" "Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out.

Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.

Grief is a circular staircase.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.