Educator quotes

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.