Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.
Know the subject; love the subject; like your students; know your students.
A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present.
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.
The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.
You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.
It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.
Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.
I’ve watched Jurassic Park twice in my life – once when I was six and the second time a couple of weeks ago. It inspired me to think about how gaps in time change our way of perceiving.
The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.