If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.

Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

I can't choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.

There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.

In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.

You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.