We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.

Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.

The number of books students read...is among the best indicators of student reading development.

We're all so multifaceted, and it's impossible to see all the sides at once.

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.

There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life.

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.