School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.

I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

Death is contagious

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

I hate birthdays. It's so funny, people always come up to me, "Hey! It's my birthday!" But when it's my birthday, I don't want to talk about it, I don't wanna tell anybody.

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.

Instead of looking for love, let it happen by being the best you that you can be.

Am I pretty? I must be, I thought, for all girls in love are pretty.

If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present.