“Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.”

“never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.”

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out. ”

“Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.”

“Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.”

“To be in your children's memories tomorrow,You have to be in their lives today.”

“Cheer Up the worst is yet to come!”