Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.

The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.

In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment.

Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined before you enter the classroom door

Photography must be integrated with the story.

Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.

To succeed means you to sail across some difficult courses.

If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed.

To the lack of incentive to effort which is the awful shadow under which we live may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

Whenever I meet a pretty girl, the first thing I look for is intelligence; because if she doesn't have that, then she’s mine.

I said it three times actually.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.

"I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind." One practices like this.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.