There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work.

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy.

It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.

When you give of yourself, it's draining.

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.

Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.

Our sport is really European, so you get to show off what you do to your friends and family and they can actually follow along.

Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.

Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.