It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work.

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy.

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.

When you give of yourself, it's draining.

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

A person who has the slightest fear of insult cannot be called a “Gnani” [the enlightened one] and a person who desires self-recognition [maan] is not a Gnani [the enlightened one].

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. ... You might not be home.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country.

In the very beginning whenever Mia Hamm or Brandi Chastain would call for the ball, I'd just give it to them immediately because it was them and I was nervous.

I eat like a horse; sometimes I think I must have cancer.

I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

If you actually just treat people as if they're already in the movement, they're already alongside this movement, and just let them enter the conversation midstream, it's actually more effective.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.