Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.