Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.