Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.

The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech is a river of breath, bent into hisses and hums by the soft flesh of the mouth and throat.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

I believe you have my umbrella" he says, almost out of breath but wearing a grin that has too much wolf in it to be properly sheepish.

When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.

Learning is better worth than houses or land.

The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.

If he ever left me, I wouldn't even be sad; no, 'cause there's a blessing in every lesson, and I'm glad that I knew him at all.

Remember that our Heavenly Father and our Savior, Jesus Christ, know you best and love you the most.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.