[To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?
When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.
You have to be prepared to think outside the box. . . Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.
I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.
One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.
When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place [in] thinking and technology and democracy.
Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt
. . . suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that. "
The supreme adventure in a man's life is his journey back to his Creator.
To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?