Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.

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.

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.

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Think differently to change the society.

I love you and I will until the end of time.And just as she said the words, two bright stars drifted past them overhead and disappeared into the night sky together…

I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it.

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.

People make institutions, not vice versa.

How much of you is repetition?

The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.

Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.