If you want to know what a tiger is like, look at a cat.

Where there are no learned men, there even the ignorant are esteemed learned, as where there are no trees, there the lonely palm is esteemed a tree.

If each one teach one, if each one reach one, and help one another - together we can get there as a people

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

How can you trust anyone who doesn't know how to blush?

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent, not a single conception of ability. At the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and of intelligence.