Writing

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

-Diogenes

You can learn many things from your children. How much patience you have, for example.

-Franklin P. Jones

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

-Blaise Pascal

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

-William Arthur Ward

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

-Charles Dickens

Do not keep the alabaster box if your love and friendship sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier. The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go.

-George William Childs