I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.

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

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

I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.

And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.

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

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe