Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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!'

The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place to examine the social mores and the economic and political climates. In a way, the autobiography becomes history as well as the story of one person, for it becomes the story of a family or the story of the state or nation.

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.