Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.

I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

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

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

People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

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

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