Some people change. Most people don't. Accepting this makes it much harder for them to disappoint you.
I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
I still have my quickness, but I turn it on and off. I don't want to fail in anything I do and that's why I'm hard on myself.
Let the people discover you! You might have the key of the locked doors in their lives! Open yourself to the world; you might be the magic the world needs!
The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.
I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner. '