Ask 'How will they learn best?' not 'Can they learn?'.

One of the greatest things in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want to be.

We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.

Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up.

"Ganas is all you need."

If we expect students to be winners and expect them to do well, they will rise to the occasion.

The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.

Education is the ticket to success

I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

It goes like this: teaching is touching life

You burros have calculus in your blood.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then anew thought hit her. Perhaps love was grace. A shiver wentup her spine. What did that make anger? The antithesis ofgrace?

One person's garbage is another person's commodity.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

What am I that I am called upon to have prejudices concerning the universe?

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

I commend women who wake up 30, 40 minutes early to put on eyeliner. I think it's ­beautiful. I'm just not that person.

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.