Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

I think what we've done is given children a lot of things that they didn't ask for instead of what they do want.

Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

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

Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.