Know the subject; love the subject; like your students; know your students.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.

I know, I know, I'm being a girl.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling.

There is great force hidden in a sweet command.

I like comedy as a group sport.

I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.

I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

I don't have beef with nobody.