I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.

The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?

I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.

You can't do it better without teamwork.

As time requireth a man of marvellous mirth and past times and sometimes of as sad gravity as who say: a man for all seasons.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.

In this world we live in now, with a 24/7 news cycle, perception can sometimes be more powerful than reality.

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.