My world got very small, the way it always does when someone in your family is sick.

It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.

If you treat every question like you've never heard it before, your students feel like you respect them and everyone learns a lot more. Including the teacher.

It’s a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.

We are all given equal opportunity to learn new things. We just have to be determined and persistent.

Human improvement is from within outward.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.

One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.