We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.

One of the greatest things in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want to be.

Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up.

"Ganas is all you need."

If we expect students to be winners and expect them to do well, they will rise to the occasion.

The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.

Education is the ticket to success

Ask 'How will they learn best?' not 'Can they learn?'.

I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

It goes like this: teaching is touching life

You burros have calculus in your blood.

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.

Be careful not to laugh at the Phoenix when she goes up in flames, or you'll be left in the dust when she grows her new wings and flies swiftly away.

The nurses did their best to spruce up the antiseptic corridors but the smell of pine boughs was overpowered by Pine Sol and no one paused beneath the mistletoe on the contagious ward.

The true forgiver will always look into your eyes.

Different function is a function of different system

-"Nick?" "I'm still here, Laurant." -"Did you tell Tommy we slept together?" "No, but you just did. He's standing right here." She fell asleep. But this time she didn't have any dreams or nightmare.

I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

Dmitri was in my arms.

Make yourself smell nice. I even wear perfume sometimes when I'm alone.