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

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

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

It goes like this: teaching is touching life

You burros have calculus in your blood.

She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above.

I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'

The magic happens when you find the sweet spot where your genuine interests, skills, and opportunity intersect.

I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.

I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.