I believe in the power of education to change the world.
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
The will to learn is an intrinsic motive, one that finds both its source and its reward in its own exercise.