Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.

Parents often brag about the amount of money spent per child, but I think, perhaps ironically, those great monies that are spent - I call it putting a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.