Consistency. Clarity. Courage. I like to stand for consistency, clarity and courage in my thoughts, words, and actions.

There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk’s patience, a Warrior’s courage, a Child’s imagination.

If you are born on this planet, we want to make sure you get the kind of education you actually deserve.

We haven’t even reached 0.00000001% of where we want to reach. There is so much more to do. We want to make sure that no child should ever be on the mercy of anyone else for his/her education.

We cannot leave our children disconnected from opportunities that are designed specially for them.

We cannot let the future of our children be decided by their zip codes and family incomes.

We cannot let commercialization of education come in the way of democratization of education.

Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country.

Change takes time. But, it also takes people.

Be Practical." That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.

Success for me hasn't been about individual success. It's about the success of all those young boys and girls who I have the honor of working with.

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.

I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't?

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls.