Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

Education is the thing. This black-white bit - I don't deal with people that way. I deal with it as if you are another individual. If you do something that perturbs me or aggravates me, I do not think you've done it because I'm black.

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

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

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.

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