Teachers try to make us feel lower than themselves, maybe because this is because they feel lower than outside people. One teacher told me to get out of the room and never come back, which I did.

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.

I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.

You deserve your love more than anyone else. First fill your vessel with love and then give it away with joy.

Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours there is no life without them.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

The most interesting nerds are the ones who take offense to being called nerds.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.