"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls"

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

"Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes"

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next"

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"