If we expect students to be winners and expect them to do well, they will rise to the occasion.

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."

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?'.

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

It goes like this: teaching is touching life

You burros have calculus in your blood.

Be not proud of your intelligence. Be simple, wise, and humble.

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.

Don't dream your life, but live your dream

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.