I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.

all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.