Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

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.

As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self chooses the Thou.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.

Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.

There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.

It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time

Most people get excited over new cars; I get excited over death certificates. It's no wonder my husband worries about my state of mind.

Make the customer the hero of your brand's story.