Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

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.

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

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.

Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.

It is absolutely possible that the impossible is possible.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

The opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly.

If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.

God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself.