Success for me hasn't been about individual success. It's about the success of all those young boys and girls who I have the honor of working with.

There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk’s patience, a Warrior’s courage, a Child’s imagination.

If you are born on this planet, we want to make sure you get the kind of education you actually deserve.

We haven’t even reached 0.00000001% of where we want to reach. There is so much more to do. We want to make sure that no child should ever be on the mercy of anyone else for his/her education.

We cannot leave our children disconnected from opportunities that are designed specially for them.

We cannot let the future of our children be decided by their zip codes and family incomes.

We cannot let commercialization of education come in the way of democratization of education.

Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country.

Change takes time. But, it also takes people.

Be Practical." That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.

Very often we sit back thinking good things will happen, knowing that good things take time and hoping that someone else will do it. The world needs us!

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life.

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

David James is frustrated because he thinks us being bottom isn't helping his chances with England. I think it gives him more chance to show his ability.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Beginner's luck is great for beginners.