Love alone could waken love.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.