“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

“Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

“The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained.”

“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong.”

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”

“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”

“When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?”