We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge.

I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't very far.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

It's so rare that I'll read or even watch an interview. I don't want to, either. I don't want to see other people's comments.

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and just ain't spitting it out.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too.