A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared. . . to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.
The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.
If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.
Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
We salute the rank not the man