Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Get mad, then get over it.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed. "Well, well!" she said, "it seems to me that our guests are having a very good time.""I hope so, " replied Moominpappa. "Pass me a banana, please dear.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say.

There are times we need to tell ourselves, "Good job!" when we know that is true.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

Especially as a teenager, I was always being racially profiled by the police. You just see all this injustice, and you want to do something about it, but you don't know how.

The thing you realize pretty quickly, though, is that being in front of an audience whose job it is to laugh is a big pressure if the writing is not hilarious.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.