A good beginning makes a good ending.
A good cat deserves a good rat.
A good speaker makes a good liar.
A good tree bears good fruit.
Good health is the sister of beauty.
A good life is the best sermon.
A good dog deserves a good bone.
Hunger is a good cook.
I'm a good mother. I'm a good person.
A good thing never ends.
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.
Ragging at its most harmless is embarrassing and silly, but at its worst, it attempts to prevent individual students from independent thinking, attempts, in fact, to eradicate freewill
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
Failing to make it to the list of the best 5 students in class or not being named the team captain should not make anyone feel like they have failed.
Just because something awful happens to someone else, it doesn't mean the issues in your life should take any less importance.
I've invented several games for use as teaching tools in my classroom: one of them, a game called 'Iron Age: Council of the Clans,' got so popular among my students that they encouraged me to publish it, which I did.
I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.
I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.
