We all need each other.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing.

All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.

I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share.