A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on … - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.