A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering. I pray for the day when God will end mine.

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.