They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.

You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?

Teaching is bringing the news.

Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.

There is nothing betterthan us, making memories of us.

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

The weight of your body is controlled by the image in your mind.

A person worth envying is a person who doesn't envy

Oh yeah, and Spader was hanging out with a penguin" -Bobby Pendragon

So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.

My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

Bhakti and Humility cannot be separated like sweetness cannot be separated from sweet.