My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

Lillian Hellman

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Yann Martel

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

John Green

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Phil McGraw

Man is an end in himself.

Ayn Rand

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

W. E. B. Du Bois

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

William Hague

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Anthony de Mello

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Ansel Adams

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Alice Walker

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

Thomas Moore