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.

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

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.

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.

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

There's always a puppet and a puppeteer in a relationship. Take your time to find out which one you are.

Be good, or good at it.

Fear is destructive and defeating, but faith is constructive and creative.

Wherever you are remember you represent Christ

It appears there's a little too much chlorine in their gene pool.

Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate or fair. And make no mistake: here, you face death.

I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus - living fossils - so we will never forget what these people stood for.

Call it crazy, or just chicken salad.