Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

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.

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.

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.

Potency is defined as a hidden opportunity, ability, strength, being able to display itself in certain conditions

Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

I got a rhythm going. The guys just did a good job of putting the ball in my hands.

Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.

The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.

People will always show their true selves in the end.

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.