Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn, and grow.

Make every day special. Own it. Enjoy it. Bask in the glory of life. Appreciate the gift of your own life.

Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.

Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

There is really no end to life's little humiliations.

With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.