It goes like this: teaching is touching life

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.

You burros have calculus in your blood.

I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple.

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

I always fill the chat box, almost every day, and end up deleting my heart.

Your victory depends on how much you believe in God’s power

When you step out in faith, God's mighty power steps into your life!

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution.

If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself.

When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.