I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.

You have to be prepared to think outside the box...Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.

It's easy to have faith when everything is going great. The real test of faith is when you're facing something that only your faith in God will get you through.

Build an organization that can tackle the tough things and keep moving.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

Women will bring peace into this world.

I think that if you're just a good person, you work hard, you say "yes," and you are driven, you will eventually work your way to the top. At least that's how it's been for me.

Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

We have to choose to slow down, to actually see the time and space that we are in. To truly see people and accept them in their priceless moments.

There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement.

I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.

I don't like grouper fish. Well, they're okay. They hang around star fish. Because they're grouper fish.

Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.