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

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

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

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.

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

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.