I'm not one of those who say this is the way. I'm not that opinionated. I can only say this is my way. Even the $1,000 scholarship that my son could have gotten from the state of Illinois to go to college, we didn't want. I'd rather get out and work and have my children know that their money comes from their parents and we have to work for it.

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

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.

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

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

I don't have to be accountable to some authority, which is why I don't take federal funds. I don't want anyone's monies unless they're monies without strings attached. It's not that we don't need them.