Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?

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.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

A dwarf will always tell tall stories.

The purpose of dreaming isn't to dream forever, but to wake up from it.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Any coach worth his salt will take a look at that and say, 'I'll take my chances with that'

Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most youth are conservative and not very sympathetic to the working class.

The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.