A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

Every man born of woman has problems.

The reason why [the medical community] is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them

You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.

I smile at her. "You're an angel." "Nah," she says. "I'm just a girl crazy in love.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.