If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.