The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.

Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.

Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well.

In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.

The future belongs to the educated.

The Bible is instruction, it is light, it is the Word of God that predicts future events, warns of dangers and holds us back from falling and getting hurt.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

I get a lot of credit for having succeeded as a Latina in this world, and I am not that. I appreciate it, but I'm Italian. And that does happen a lot.

The TV season is a year-long thing now, and the networks are starting to look at it that way, thanks to cable, satellites, and competition.

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated.

Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.

The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around

The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.