Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

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.

Bad timekeeping will suck the life out of your bank account.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

I feel better about blaming myself if there is some sort of mistake and that's why I'm not in a rush.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

I visualize my hand raised at the end, and every thing in between is just having fun.

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.