“Learn the rules before you break them.”

“I'd go off alone,because you can't trust those who want to break the rules and you certainly can't trust those who make the rules so you do the only thing possible,you avoid the rules.”

“All good teachers will tell you that the most important quality they bring to their teaching is their love for the children. But what does that mean? It means that before we can teach them, we need to delight in them. Someone once said that children need one thing in order to succeed in life: someone who is crazy about them. We need to find a way to delight in all our students. We may be the only one in their lives to do so. We need to look for the best, expect the best, find something in each child that we can truly treasure.... If children recognize that we have seen their genius, who they really are, they will have the confidence and resilience to take risks in learning. I am convinced that many learning and social difficulties would disappear if we learned to see the genius in each child and then created a learning environment that encourages it to develop.”

“Light travels faster than sound. Isn't that why people appear bright before you hear them speak? ”

“If at first you don't succeed, CHANGE THE RULES”

“Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you.”

“It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.”