When we do the hard stuff for the first 20 years we will have an easier life for the 60, but if we take it easy for the first 20 then we will live a life of struggle later on.

Having fun while learning feels like playing a game.

Having a goal and having a dream are different.

Being yourself is the ticket to a successful life.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.

When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman.

I don't know why anyone does the job without that pressure.

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.