Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.

After being around such crazy people, how could I not change too?

My ma always told me that when I found things were too hard to figure out, I could probably bet that I hadn't prayed on it first.

Misery, like yoga, is not a competitive sport

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

It's simplicity itself that its future will be way worse than its past.

Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.

I am more on a global jihad to preserve our freedom. I believe that even though I have nothing against the people or Muslims or anybody for that reason.

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.