“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”
E. E. Cummings
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
James Matthew Barrie
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
Lou Holtz
“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.”
Mario Cuomo
“Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”
Mark Twain
“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”
Jacques Barzun