Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

Teachers are people too and they can lose patience just as well as anyone can. Everyone's got their level of tolerance. Even the best of folks can lose it now and then.

The difference between good teachers and great teachers is that great teachers have mastered the art of teaching people things they didn't know they needed to learn.

Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.

Being around people like Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack. . . had a great impact on me as a singer, as a performer, as a musician.

The expression 'Those who can't do, teach' is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you'll see that teachers aren't particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as 'nobody can do anything