A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own, and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching.

No one can motivate you to do anything. You motivate yourself, based on information you receive and how directly you can relate it to your own potential achievement.

You get what you get when you get it.

One key ingredient to successful technology integration is not forgetting the autonomy and the fun.

When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.

I think love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

Progress is the mother of problems.

Dope and diamonds, dope and diamonds, that's all that I want

That’s the interesting thing about the philosophy — to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment.