If teaching were easy, we wouldn't need teachers.

The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.

They say the mind can move mountains, I think it can move the whole god damn universe. Or else how have we travelled to other planets?

I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes.

Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

I press to my centre, and find there is something there.