... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.

The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?

I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

Met someone who works at the zoo. Apparently the panda is a nasty animal.

True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

I just don't want to be famous. I feel like there's a lot of sacrifice in that I'm not really willing to make.

I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us.