The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.
To be happy in life. . . You've got to train your mind to see the good, to be grateful for what you have.
Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies.