Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.

Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives.

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.

My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.

La vida es mi tortura y la muerte será mi descanso.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!

Life is a cat asleep on the window sill suddenly waking as it falls from the third floor.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

I bet she woke up with her hair looking like something out of a Pantene commercial while little bluebirds circled around her head, and raccoons brought her breakfast or something.

My uncle developed the training philosophy. His idea of good tennis training is basically quite simple: you must try to gain time.

We are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.