The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.

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.

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.

It goes like this: teaching is touching life

You burros have calculus in your blood.

It's lovely to see people so happy.

The privilege of the grave: Its occupant has one privilege which is not exercised by any living person: free speech.

A man who walks with God always gets to his destination.

I'm getting used to the singing part but not the talking part.

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

The most straight seems curved.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

It would be good if you opened your heart to the fullness of time and spirit.