If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.

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.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.

I am looking for the disconnected connection

Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other nation in the region or if it will design something that is unique to Saudi Arabia.

A color is as strong as the impression it creates.

It doesn't matter if you have a valentine or not - just love yourself and be your own.

(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.

people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.