My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.