Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.

Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.

That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well.

In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.

The future belongs to the educated.

The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.

The trouble you're expecting never happens

I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act.

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific.

She's so in love with me, she doesn't know anything. That's why she's in love with me.

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.

An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.