Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.

The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?

I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.

Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

Let today be the day you love yourself enough to no longer just dream of a better life

I scroll through iPhone photos and see that if I delete pictures of myself with a double chin, I will erase all proof of my glorious life.

While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow. God views our lives from and for eternity, so he is never in a hurry.

Every morning, whether I've slept or not, whether I've made it through the day without crying or given in and sobbed in the shower, where no one can hear me― the sun comes up, and I make my choice.

I really respond to putting myself out of my own depth and finding my feet.

You know, I've virtually never been chatted up in my life, it's true.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.