Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.

Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best.

I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. I decided we were right going into World War II.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

Confidence is the most important quality in all athlete-coach relationships.

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

Yoko brought the walrus, there was magic in the air.