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.

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.

I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.

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

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.

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

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