Learning is less about memorizing facts and more about the ability to think.

Trust is like blood pressure. It's silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.

If you don't pass your values on to your kids, someone else will.

Always tell the truth or the truth will tell on you.

Opportunity may knock only once but it passes by your door every day.

Sometimes the best cure for life’s woes is a sense of humor.

Never seek permission to be yourself. Revel in your own beauty.

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time.

You can learn more about hunting deer with a bow and arrow in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T - that's a bad word that doesn't go with L-O-V-E.

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

My dad played in different clubs and open mic nights. But he mostly walked dogs. A lot of dogs.