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

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

But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.

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

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.

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

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