It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Appreciation has tremendous power. A beautiful thing is not beautiful until someone appreciates it.

I'll show then that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday

No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

The difference between being a winner and being a loser is how you pick yourself up again, especially when you're down for the third or fourth or twentieth time!

Fitting people with books is about as difficult as fitting them with shoes.