The kinds of people we meet in our life have a huge impact on the kind of person we become.

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.

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.

I don't need you because I want to save you. I want to save you because I need you to save me.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

If you're comfortable in your own skin, you will feel beautiful - and look beautiful to others, too.

A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.

Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

Think good, speak good, and be good.

Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do.