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

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.

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

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

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.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.

Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.

We aren't robots. What makes us exceptional as humans, is that we have the capacity to feel as many emotions all at once.

Who can take away suffering without entering it?

African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.

If you ask her to do things on command, like clap or walk, she just shuts down. She does not want to perform.

We made our Moriarty very different to [Conan] Doyle's. He's Irish, and he brings all his charm, his twinkle and his humor to it while he's also terrifying.

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

Any problems with your flight? (Acheron) I didn’t eat my pilot if that’s what you mean. And little Nicky here is still breathing and not bleeding. (Zarek)