When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.

I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired

I've worn stilettos since I was 12, so I have abused my feet to the point of no return.

To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

The point, do whatever it take to approach the Word with a fresh perspective.

I don't want little kids reading my comics.

Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.

The woman described in Proverbs 31 is not some ideal that exists out there; she is present in each one of us when we do even the smallest things with valor

Don't pull down the blinds. I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me!

I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love them.