The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

We can't predict what's going to happen, but having love is worth the risk.

Youth is an unrecoverable asset. Unless you are a hydra, lucky you.

The adversary system is a kind of warfare in mufti.

Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, "Let us make man". It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, "Let us save man".

It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief.

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

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You couldnt make headlines with raised eyebrows