The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared . . . to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.