You burros have calculus in your blood.

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.

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.

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

Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

Productive writing begins from understanding the idea.

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.

Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

What the American people don't understand is how Merrill Lynch or AIG or Lehman Brothers can reward people, and the entity fails. Not only do the shareholders lose, but the entities lose.

But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.” “Already crazy about you, Sage.

I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.