That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well.

Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.

Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.

In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.

The future belongs to the educated.

When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to.

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.