I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work.

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.

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

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.

I am not a teacher of humanity, I am merely servant of humanity.

The truth can set us free but can hurt us sometimes...

Don’t live like a CEO when you’re still a sandwich artist.

We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.

God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.