There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second.

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.

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

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.

When your focus is too narrow you can miss the big picture.

Tell me, how do get away from your own self?” she questioned. I knew what she meant with a sickening realization. They knew what I was. Somehow, they had found out my only secret.

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

I'm high off the indo creepin' with the quickness to the cut, bust one to his head while he munches on that donut.

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

Well, what did I expect? S&M didn't stand for soft and mushy?

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

Hold tight to the mentality of being a student, meaning hold on to curiosity and approach life as a student.

I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.