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No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes.

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.