Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

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

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

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

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.

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