The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.

the human body is a miniature version of the universe - the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.

I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mortal, that my claimUpon the future is no more than yours.

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

Friendship first, competition second.