Maybe I m not making big changes in the world, but if I have somehow encouraged somebody along the journey then I ve done what I m called to do. The teachers I love most have grace. Their work is not proficiency and outcome, it s poetry and ministry. No matter what our attempts to inform, it is our ability to inspire that will turn the tides. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
All children are special and important.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious. To seek, always to seek. For we know only in part. The main thing in life is not to be afraid to be human. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.