"Teaching might be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

~John Steinbeck

"Raise your words, not your voice.  It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

~Rumi

"We must not in trying to think about how we can make a big difference ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."

~Marian Wright Edelman

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

~Les Miserables

"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."

~W.E.B DuBois