The memory is a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.

The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.

It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...

Say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it.

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

Just remember, you never know what's possible until you risk finding out.

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.

When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.

I don't really wear foreign shoes. It gotta be a pair of wheat timbs and ones I don't think I could go without those not a whole month without those.

Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative.

I do love cricket - it's so very English.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.