None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

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

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

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

None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

One night my son was downstairs studying, and he had been up so late all that week, and my husband said, "I feel so sorry for him." I said, "Look, if he's going to become a surgeon" - he is studying to be a doctor - "he's going to have his hard times. I feel sorry for him too, but if he lives in this world he's going to have more hard times. He's going to stay up some more nights." I think we can't shield them from the hard times, even though we'd like to. I say to the children that I teach and to my own - I can't test the ground for you and tell you that's a safe step there.