Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

Are you Mindful or Mindless? Or in the Middle?

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be.

To see the light we must first acknowledge that we are in the dark.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

I'd like to work with David Lynch again.

I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.

I always know my lines.