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

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

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.

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

He didn’t like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.

A book is a garden, only its flowers are ideas.

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Give life meaning through your commitments.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.

He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.