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.

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.

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

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.

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

If God can only relate with us based on our level of knowledge that means God is limited to our ignorance.

The power of knowledge is so great and forceful, if only we knew.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work.

Beauty is my heritage and my core. But my passion is design for the spaces where we live and work.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

LIFE: My favorite occupation.

I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football.

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don't want there to be anything beyond nature. They don't want a supernatural being to affect nature.