There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.

You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?

Teaching is bringing the news.

Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.

They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.

The stories I read gives strength to my spirit.

Well, I think I speak for everyone when I say that 'Alice Faye picked a peck of pepper for the poor, piping pig in the purple poke.' Wait—is that not what we’re talking about here?

Christ is ever in the world of existence. He has never disappeared out of it.... Rest assured that Christ is present. The Spiritual beauty we see around us today is from the breathings of Christ.

Cancer can take a long time to develop and necessarily has multiple causes.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.

Tell her we don’t bite.” “I don’t lie to my friends.

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.

Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune deficiency.