People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

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.

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.

The ability to continue moving when you are feeling scared, fearful or lazy is the sign of true mental strength.

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter, toasted paprike and dip some lobster in it!

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.

It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.

And when people give me their word, I listen to them.