Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

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.

Comfort has been the very reason why so many people never lived their real and true destiny though they got to a certain comfortable destination!

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

In order for me to parent well I have to empathize and stay open with my son.

Heart disease is a foodborne illness.

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

Tim Tebow cannot dance, I know that. Tebow can do a lot of things, but he can not dance.

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.