"I do not believe there is a..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.”

“One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.”

“For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.”

“My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.”

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”

“Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.”

“Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.”

“I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.”

“The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.”