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

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.

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

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.

2.15 GRIEFAll the grief of every man, Remove himself – he only can, For this grief that be within, Be caused by his own thinking.[110] - 2

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

Highland has changed my entire way of working with scripts. I use it every day.

ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

I don't have a problem with enthusiasm.

I am tired of hotels promising to go the extra mile only to have them refuse to go round the corner!

People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.