“Suzy smiled and the whole class laughed at me, but when she spoke, I heard a new sound, not the song of an angel, but the words of a woman on a pedestal, coming down.”

“Here, let me break it down for you,so you know what I say is true:Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?”

“How can you study geometry and not believe in a god? A god of perfect points and planes, surrounded by angels and angles of all different degrees...”

“Certainly teachers themselves can do a better job of letting the world know how hard their profession is, but frankly, they have real work to do and a lot of it, so they don't have a whole lot of free time on their hands.”

“We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!”

“Because once upon a time, we grew up on stories and the voices in which they were told. We need words to hold us and the world to behold us for us to truly know our own souls.”

“Read to your children all of the timeNovels and nursery rhymesAutobiographies, even the newspaperIt doesn't mater; it's quality timeBecause once upon a time We grew up on stories in the voices in which they were told We need words to hold us and the world to behold us For us to truly know our souls”