Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up.

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.

"Ganas is all you need."

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

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.

He wanted to write someone and demand a refund on his dark side which clearly ought to have irresistible magical power but had turned out to be defective.

Did you call someone and tell them you’re safe?”“Called and told ’em I’m not dead. Not so sure about safeyet.

My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

A cluttered refrigerator door is to a growing family what a wet nose is to a healthy dog.

Faith doesn't reduce uncertainty. Faith embraces uncertainty.

Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

Anyone who makes a life of what they love is a hero to me, and it's important for those people to be visible in every kind of life, every kind of love, every kind of work.

All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had.

I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.