One of the best things that I wanted to become a teacher is that

You can grow softly, lovely and delicately amidst the hard surfaces. Not all who passed tougher times in life have a hard heart, kindness and tenderness do breathe despite of worse times.

From the windows, through the fur of snow, the landscape became more melancholy when the sun successfully brightened the quiet trees, unable to speak without their leaves.

Be thine own privy counsellor.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing

For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

Nate: “And,” he said, “boys at twelve aren’t exactly slick with the ladies.” Ruby: “’Slick with the ladies’?” I said. “Are you twelve?

You can't measure success if you have never failed.