I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

I like to know what's happening.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God.That condition that allowed the "dumb" to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it's so much larger than anything I can conceive.

What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'